MARY GATE OF HEAVEN

Porta Caeli, the Gate of Heaven.

Our Blessed Mother says, "that is for all her sons & daughters the Gate of Heaven. If any one
would ascend, even in this earthly life, into the glory of the heavenly liturgy ceaselessly
celebrated by my Son before the Fathers Face, he need only approach me.
Our Heavenly Mother will open the way into the mysteries of heaven for him. She will teach
him the reverence, the silence, the profound adoration that befits one called to serve at the
liturgical celebrations of her Son, (remember that liturgy is a public worship). How can we
serve at the liturgical functions, e.g "each time we assist in the Holy Mass which is the highest
of them all we have exactly done what is expected of us and Mary, the Gate of Heaven will
through her powerful intercession embellish and hasten our petitions to the Eternal Father
through her Precious Son.
Let me be for you the Gate of Heaven.
Come to me at every opportunity.
Pray her Holy Rosary frequently.

By so doing she will make us share in all that she hold in her Heart. She will bless us now and
bless those for whom we love and prayed for. She will love us with all her Heart and will
follow us in our comings and goings. When we fall she weep over us,
and all her desire is to lift us up, to cleanse us, to heal our wounds, and to see us restored to
the grace of friendship with her Son. As a caring Mother, she is always present to us and she
hears the prayers we address to me. She will open her hands, full of graces and blessings, over
the souls whom we recommends to her. She is ever willing and ready to come quickly to the
aid of her poor children.
She is every ready to help us, to lift us when we fall, to bind up our wounds,
and even to intervene in such a way as to repair the effects of our wrongdoing.
She is not distant. She hear every prayer addressed to her. Her maternal Heart is moved to
pity when her children, and especially her faithful devotees, have recourse to her in their
needs.
I am the Mother of Mercy, Mater Misericordiae,
honoured by the Church in her chant to me.
I do turn towards you my eyes of mercy, and I am ever willing to help poor sinners.
Let sinners come to me; I will never turn them away.
Let them appeal to my Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart;
they will never be disappointed.
As for you, dear son of mine, persevere in praying to me.
Hold fast to my Rosary and beware of every ploy of the Evil One to separate you from it.
My Rosary is your safeguard and your weapon in the fight against the forces of evil.
At the same time, for you it is a remedy and a comfort.
Do you not see how the Rosary has stabilized you?
Do you not experience its healing and all its benefits?
Pray my Rosary and teach others to do the same.
Trust me for the unfolding of the plan of my Son.
From In Sinu Iesu, The Journal of a Priest

Ezekiel 44:1-4
Then he brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary facing east, but it was closed.
The LORD said to me: This gate must remain closed; it must not be opened, and no one should come through it.
Because the LORD, the God of Israel, came through it, it must remain closed.
Only the prince may sit in it to eat a meal in the presence of the LORD; he must enter through the vestibule of the
gate and leave the same way.
Then he brought me by way of the north gate to the facade of the temple. I lookedand the glory of the LORD
filled the LORDs house! I fell on my face.

I believe it has to do with the Blessed Virgin Mary's perpetual virginity.

St. Thomas Aquinas quotes Augustine making a similar statement about Mary in his Summa Theologica:
On the contrary, It is written (Ezekiel 44:2): "This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall pass
through it; because the Lord the God of Israel hath entered in by it." Expounding these words, Augustine says in a
sermon (De Annunt. Dom. iii): "What means this closed gate in the House of the Lord, except that Mary is to be
ever inviolate? What does it mean that 'no man shall pass through it,' save that Joseph shall not know her? And
what is this--'The Lord alone enters in and goeth out by it'--except that the Holy Ghost shall impregnate her, and
that the Lord of angels shall be born of her? And what means this--'it shall be shut for evermore'--but that Mary is
a virgin before His Birth, a virgin in His Birth, and a virgin after His Birth?" (Aquinas, Summa Theologica, III.Q.28)

Behold the miracle of Our Lord's Mother. She conceived, a Virgin; she brought forth, a Virgin. A Virgin was she
when she conceived, a Virgin when pregnant, a Virgin after childbirth: as it is says in Ezekiel: And the gate was
shut, and it was not opened for the Lord passed through it."
(St. Ambrose, Homily for Christmas)

"As every mandate of grace that is sent by a king passes through the palace gates, so does every
grace that comes from heaven to the world pass through the hands of Mary the Gate of Heaven."
St. Bernardine of Siena:

"Mary is called the gate of heaven because no one can enter that blessed kingdom without passing
through her."
St. Bonaventure:

Who is this Gate if not Mary? Mary is the Gate through which Christ entered this world!"
St. Ambrose: