Mary is the antidote to a lot of temptations for Christians — especially the contemporary temptation to reduce the faith to a rigid moral system, or to reduce it to a set of ideals, or to a culture. The faith is a person — Jesus of Nazareth, the image of the invisible God. That person has a mother — the queen of heaven — to whom we can turn as our own, loving, mother. Of course, it would be a good idea to pray the Glorious Mysteries today…