God did not want to sanctify Mary as a creature–that is to say, within certain limits–or as a part (even though the principal part) of the Church.  He willed to sanctity her as a whole, as “a world in herself,” as St Bernard says.  He gave her a fullness of grace that was indeed finite in comparison with that of our Lord, but which had a kind of infinity in comparison with the grace given to us.  He wanted her to be like a universe in herself, with all the graces that have been given to any of the saints recapitulated eminently in her.   –Father Thomas Philippe ‘The Contemplative Life’

Our Lady Undoer of Knots