Even Your Protection is Beyond Our Grasp

Who else, beside your Son, is concerned like you about the fate of the human race? Who defends us, time and time again, in our tribulations? Who delivers us promptly from the temptations that assail us? Who takes so much pain to plead in favor of sinners? Who takes their defense to excuse them in desperate circumstances? By virtue of the frankness and the power with your Son that your motherhood brought you, although our crimes condemn us and we dare not look again toward the heavens, you save us from the eternal punishments by your supplications and intercessions. This is why the afflicted seek solace with you. Those who have suffered injustice run to you. The severely ill invoke your assistance. All that is yours is wonderful, Mother of God. Everything about you is bigger than life, way beyond our understanding and our power. Even your protection is beyond our grasp.


Saint Germanus of Constantinople