« How not to want to give Mary her whole place in our daily lifes? She is so close to us, the one who is, in everything, one of us! Isn't she the most human of all women and the best deified of God's children? But we are all called to put on the new self that has been created in God's way, in the goodness and holiness of the truth. (Ep. 4, 24)   [...]

Thus we have chosen without hesitation from the beginning of our Monastic Communities to consecrate them to the Virgin Mary so that she may be their model and their guardian. So, any Christian life is invited to place itself under her maternal protection. Isn't she indeed the canal itself that God has taken to become incarnate among us; and the most perfect human path that invites us to follow in his footsteps? »

Br Pierre-Marie
Monks in the city
Paris, Bayard, 2003, page 255

« Our communities are specially consecrated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. You should be able to turn to her every day.

Virgin, wife and mother, she will teach you the secret of bridehood, the meaning of virginity, the nature of fatherhood, the nature of fatherhood and the mystery of motherly love.

Because she is the mother of fair love, she will help you to love.

Because she is the light of prayer, she will help you to pray.

Because she loves the mystery of silence, she will introduce you to its secret.

Because she loves you, you too must learn to love her.

With Mary, do all that Christ bids you and, like her, rejoice! Mary leads the way from the Jerusalem of today towards the new Jerusalem.

Jerusalem, turn your eyes to the East and see the joy that is coming to you from God.

So I shall get up and go through the city: have you seen him whom my heart loves?

I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from heaven as beautiful as a bride adorned for her husband.

Pray much to the holy, merciful and immaculate Mother of God.

At Bethleem, Mary gave you the eternal God become a little Child. At the foot of the cross she stood near her Son while he died for you. In Jerusalem she will reveal the true face of Emmanuel to you. »

Monastic Communities of Jerusalem
Jerusalem - Rule of Life, § 177,
Paris, Cerf, 2000, pages 160 - 161.