The Blessed Virgin's Last Words to Us

The Immaculata, St. Mary's, Kansas

We don't have any words recorded in the Scripture spoken by St. Joseph. That leads me to believe that he was the strong, silent type...possibly a Phlegmatic or a Melancholic/Phlegmatic. 

We do have beautiful words that were spoken by the Blessed Virgin Mary to treasure - like the Magnificat, for example, or "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done unto me according to thy word." But the very last sentence that is recorded from her lips is "Do whatever He tells you." (Seen above, inscribed in Latin.)

The Evangelists could have easily recorded what she said when she met her Son on the way to Calvary, or what she said as she stood beneath His Cross, or at His Resurrection. But there seems to be special significance behind her last words to us being an admonition for us to obey Her Son. That was her message all along - it's all for Him, do His Will, please Him, He is the One that matters.

"...If you question her and say: 'Mother, what can we do to please you?' no doubt she will answer that she desires and wants you to do what she directed to be done at that celebrated marriage feast of Cana in Galilee when the wine gave out. She said to those who had the care of it: Do whatever my Son tells you. (John 2:5) If then you listen to her faithfully, you will hear in your heart those very words addressed to you: Do whatever my Son tells you. May God give us the grace to listen to her in this life and in the other. Amen."

~ from a sermon of St. Francis de Sales on December 8, 1622. 

"Of all the festivals of the most Holy Virgin there was none more dear to the tender piety of St. Francis de Sales than the Immaculate Conception." ~ Don Gaspar Gilli