“While she lived on this earth, she could only be close to a few people. Being in God, who is close to us, actually, ‘within’ all of us, Mary shares in this closeness of God. Being in God and with God, she is close to each one of us, knows our hearts, can hear our prayers, can help us with her motherly kindness, and has been given to us, as the Lord said, precisely as a ‘mother’ to whom we can turn at every moment.”

―St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church