Our Order, along with the Church, admires and exalts Mary, who is united to the saving work of her Son by an indissoluble bond, as the most splendid fruit of redemption, and contemplates her as the most pure image of what which it itself yearns and hopes to be.
We, the Mercedarians, intend to love Mary as her sons and to honor her as “Our Mother”, for she is spiritual foundress of the Order. (COM. 80 – 81)
