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149 Marian Character addressed to her Son: “They have no wine” (Jn 2, 3). Then she told the servants to do whatever her Son told them (cf. Jn 2, 5). 25 Father Papczynski expresses an opinion that Mary takes care of us in just the same way as she took care of her only Son: “I almost understand the essence of the particular benefits bestowed upon us through Mary, but I lack the words to offer these benefits for consideration. Therefore, I will be brief: We have everything through Mary and, after God, it is in her that we live and move and have our being (cf. Acts 17, 28).” 26 After God, she is the principle of all grace in us. 27 Mary’s Son was the one who charged her with the task of distributing graces and mediating between God and His people. He did so from the Cross when, in the per- son of John, He commended His Church to her care (cf. Jn 19, 26). 28 Father Papczynski interprets the words of Jesus directed to Mary: “Woman, behold your son!” and to John: “Behold, your mother!” (Jn 19, 26-27) both in their literal and spiritual sense. First, he congratulates St. John on his good fortune that the Lord, dying on the Cross, entrusted him with the care of His Mother. At the same time, Father Papczynski rejoices in the fact that, in the person of John, the Lord entrusted all peo- ple to the Mother of God as her sons. 29 From then on this courageous woman was to be the mainstay and the column of the Church, she was to support it with her power and destroy all temptations which threaten it. 30 The crucified Jesus entrusted the entire Church to His Mother, He entrusted to her all the people in it, both the good and the bad, the cho- sen and the rejected. 31 Therefore, in Father Papczynski’s opinion, we may all consider ourselves to have been entrusted to the Most Holy Virgin. He does not claim, however, that Mary’s motherhood in relation to people is of a physical nature, it is so only in relation to Jesus. Her motherhood in relation to all people is spiritual in nature because in Mary we are born into the supernatural life. 32 Father Papczynski does not provide a systematic course of Marian theology. In his meditations, he only refers to the various episodes from Mary’s life in order to venerate her and give her as an example to imi-