As Dominicans we pride ourselves on having a special devotion to our Lady. If that means that we consider ourselves to have more devotion to her than other orders or other Catholics generally, then our pride is foolish and based on a manifest untruth. It is hard to think of a single order or organization in the Church which doesn't pride itself on a special devotion to the Mother of God. But surely we are not reduce to infantile competition on ‘who loves Mother most'. What our special devotions ought to mean is that we all love her in different, characteristic, ways. And our characteristic Dominican way, I would suggest, of loving our Lady, is to give her the service of our minds as well as of our affection.