MARY GATE OF HEAVEN

Porta Caeli, the Gate of Heaven.

I am for all my priest sons the Gate of Heaven.

If any priest 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.
I will open the way into the mysteries of heaven for him.
I will teach him the reverence, the silence, the profound adoration
that befits one called to serve at the altars of my Son, and in His place.
Let me be for you the Gate of Heaven.
Come to me at every opportunity.
Pray my Rosary.

I will make you share in all that I hold in my Heart.

I bless you now and I bless those for whom you have prayed to me.
I bless my priest sons.
I love them with all my Heart and I follow them in their comings and goings.
When they fall I weep over them,
and all my desire is to lift them up, to cleanse them, to heal their wounds,
and to see them restored to the grace of friendship with my Son.
I am present to you and I hear the prayers you address to me.
I will open my hands, full of graces and blessings,
over the souls whom you recommended to me.
I am ever willing to come quickly to the aid of my poor children.
I am every ready to help them them,
to lift them when they fall,
to bind up their wounds,
and even to intervene in such a way

as to repair the effects of their wrongdoing.

I am not distant. I hear every prayer addressed to me.
My maternal Heart is moved to pity when my children,
and especially my priest sons, have recourse to me 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: