Every school of the Sacred Heart in all parts of the world has a statue, or picture of Mater. Many have a special chapel dedicated to Mater. The original Mater was painted by Pauline Perdrau, RSCJ in 1844 at the Trinita dei Monti, in Rome. Our former Mother General, Marie-Therese de Lescure, RSCJ composed a beautiful prayer to her and I am copying it here.
Mother, most admirable, guardian of the interior life, we ask you to loosen our grasp on visible things and help us to see the invisible which your eyes behold; the invisible life, the invisable action, the invisible love, all those realities of faith that are for us eternal values. When we get lost in the devouring activity of the visible and often not so important things, keep us in the light of the unseen and make us strong as though we beheld the invisible. Above and beyond accessory trifles that concern and carry us away, that burden our minds and hearts and distort our scale of values, give us, we ask you, a hunger and thirst for the essential: the wish of the Lord and the work of his love to which he has called each of us. Amen.
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