Here it is to be noted that no man is to place his trust and confidence in the Mother of God or her merit. For such confidence befits God alone as the only lofty divine service. Rather, that one is to glorify and thank God through her and through the grace that is given to her, and not otherwise to praise and love her than as she who obtained such goods from God out of utter grace, without merit, as she herself confesses in the Magnificat.

One of the blessings of daily Matins is the exposure we have to the Psalms. For in Matins, we not only read them and quote verses from them - we sing them in their entirely, causing us to meditate upon them, and even embed portions of them in memory. They consequently begin to shape our piety, and even our language.