"Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix; nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta!"
(Under thy patronage we fly, holy Mother of God: despise not our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us from all dangers, glorious and blessed Virgin!)

In 1988 His Holiness Pope John Paul II issued the motu proprio Ecclesia Dei, in which he recognised the "rightful aspirations" of "all those faithful who feel attached to some previous liturgical and disciplinary forms of the Latin Tradition". With this mandate the Maternal Heart of Mary Traditional/Classical Mass Community aims to provide for those aforementioned Catholics a regular program of the traditional liturgy. This includes the regular celebration of both the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the Divine Office. Sung Mass is offered every Sunday and Thursday, as well as on all feasts. Solemn Vespers is celebrated at least once a month. [See the calendar]. 

Late in 2001 Fr. Laurence Gresser F.S.S.P. was appointed chaplain to the Maternal Heart Community by the Most Rev. Dr. George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney.