A Slave of Mary

Mancipium Mariae

It is proper to you to give all your efforts, that you might become wholly like this woman (Mary), clothed with the sun:, and that you might be as most friendly, as most similar, as most close, as most familiar as her to the sun of justice. It is proper to you to give all your efforts, that you might pass entirely into MARY, that you might migrate entirely into affection for MARY, that you might breathe entirely the praises of MARY, that you might be entirely the honor of Mary, and plant honors everywhere, that you might become entirely Mary's treasure, patrimony, possession, inheritance, and proceeds of inheritance, just as all these things, and infinitely more and greater, is Mary to you, and they are to you in Mary, they are to you through Mary, they are to you because of Mary.

Et tuae igitur partes fuerunt, operam omnem dare, ut totes fieres mulieri huic sole amictæ, solique justitiæ amicissimæ, quam simillimus, quam vicinissimus, quam familiarissimus. Tuæ partes fuerunt, operum omnem dare, ut totus in MARIAM transires, totus in affectum erga MARIAM migrares, totus MARIAE laudes spirares, totus Mariae honor esses, honoresque ubique plantares, totus Mariæ peculium, patrimonium, possessio, hæreditas, hæreditatisque proventus fieres, perinde uti etiam hæc omnia, infinitiesque plura & majora tibi est Maria, tibi sunt in Maria, tibi sunt per Mariam, sunt tibi propter Mariam.

Opera omnia ascetica, Kasper Druzbicki, SJ.
Provisionum senectutis, Pars I, Provisio VI: Per Imitationem Pretiosissime Dei Matris quam perfectissimam.

Amo Jesum amore Mariae; amo Mariam amore Jesu --Drużbicki