Phase One:  "Open Your Hearts to Mary the Mother of Sorrows" (Lent and Easter)      (Weeks 1-10)

Our Blessed Lady's first task is to encourage us to accept her as our most loving Mother, Teacher and Model; and to establish a happy relationship between mother and child, teacher and pupil.  In the first phase, she is inviting us to pray with her, so that united with her in prayer, we may experience in a special way the presence of Jesus in our lives, especially through the Holy Eucharist.  The liturgical season of Lent calls to our mind the sufferings and death of our Saviour.  This gives us an added motivation to feel with our Blessed Lady, the Sorrowful Mother.  If we open our hearts to her in trust, it will enable our Blessed Mother to draw us to her Immaculate Heart and to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to reveal to us the secrets of her life of prayer and love.