"One day St. Gertrude had a vision of Our Lord counting gold coins. She summoned the courage to ask Him what he was doing. He answered: 'I am counting the Hail Marys that you have said: this is the money with which you can pay your way to Heaven.'
Our Lady said herself to St. Gertrude: "No salutation could be dearer to my heart than those beautiful and dignified words that God the Father addressed to me Himself."
And she said to St. Mechtilde: "All the Angelic Salutations that you have given me are blazoned on my cloak." (Then she held out a portion of her mantle) "When this part of my cloak is full of Hail Marys I shall gather you up and take you into the Kingdom of my Beloved Son."
What an awesome God we serve.
With the quotes you have there, and the way the story of the visitation to Elizabeth unfolds, I can not understand how anyone can keep from calling our Blessed Mother Blessed.
Maybe this is just one of the things that I will never fully understand in this life.
Refurbishing the Soul by Sr. Ursula of Trinidad
It is a RealPlayer file in audio, and it is the sort of very basic thing that I find refreshing from time to time. Sr. Ursula is also called Sr. Babsie in Trinidad. She is much loved and respected.