Blessed is she who believed
Blessed Marie-Eugène of the Child Jesus
We present this book on Mary by the Venerable Mother Marie-Eugène, OCD, author of *I Want to See God* and founder of the Institute of Our Lady of Life, published by Éditions du Carmel in France.
The writings of Father Marie-Eugène of the Child Jesus gathered here reveal to us a contemplative soul, a Marian soul, which is open to receiving. Father Marie-Eugène’s homilies and lectures are the fruit of his contemplation of the mystery; they are not speculation, but a simple echo of the Word and the silence that the Gospel offers us concerning Mary. Mary’s heart is a mother’s heart.
Father Marie-Eugène followed her in this total trust; he dwells in the mystery of Mary, ‘the Mother par excellence’, and does not seek reasons to speak of Mary in superficial praise: he lives by her and is in profound harmony with the recommendations of the Second Vatican Council in its passages on Mary: neither too much nor too little. In fact, every Christian life is rooted in the faith of Mary. ‘Blessed is she who believed’ (Lk 1:45): this is the first beatitude of the Gospel.