Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day-May 17

VALERIUS MAXIMUS relates that when Corio­lanus was besieging Rome, the prayers of his friends and all citizens were insufficient to make him desist; but as soon as he beheld his mother, Veturia, imploring him, he could no longer refuse, and immediately raised the siege. But the prayers of Mary with Jesus are so much more powerful than those of Veturia as the love and gratitude of this Son for his most dear Mother are greater.
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From Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day
Compiled by Rev. C. McNeiry, C.SS.R.
Imprimatur: Joseph Hull, C.SS.R., Prov. Angl. Sup.
Nihil Obstat: Innocentlus Apap, O.P., S.T.M., Censor Deptutatus.
Imprimatur: Edm. Can. Surmont, Vicarius Generalis.
Westmonasterii, Die 9a Junii, 1927.
First published 1927