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Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.”

—Luke 1:38 (NAB)

“If, as St. Augustine thought, prayer is our saying things together with Christ and His saying them with us, it follows that there can be no greater teacher of prayer, after Christ Himself, than His mother, Mary. ‘After Christ’ in hierarchical order, not in the temporal, because in the order of time it was obviously Mary who taught little Jesus ‘his prayers,’ as all believing mothers do with their children as soon as they can pronounce the words, even badly. We should imagine the Virgin saying a prayer with her son, and He then saying it with her. [I]n His supreme hour at Gethsemane Jesus … reproduce[d] Mary’s original ‘Fiat.’ … [I]n human terms and in the order of time, the Son of God learned other prayers too, and His style of prayer with its attitudes and gestures, from His mother.” —Timothy Verdon

Teach me, Mother of God, to pray.