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maxim[6][15] = "He who conceals a grave sin in confession is completely in the devil’s hands."; | maxim[6][15] = "He who conceals a grave sin in confession is completely in the devil’s hands."; | ||
maxim[6][16] = "Penitents should not generally change their confessors, nor confessors be forward to receive the penitents of others, a few particular cases excepted."; | maxim[6][16] = "Penitents should not generally change their confessors, nor confessors be forward to receive the penitents of others, a few particular cases excepted."; | ||
maxim[6][17] = "When a person who has been living a spiritual life for a long time falls into a serious fault, there is no better way of raising him up again than by | maxim[6][17] = "When a person who has been living a spiritual life for a long time falls into a serious fault, there is no better way of raising him up again than by encouraging him to manifest his fall to any pious friend with whom he has a particular intimacy, and God will restore him to his first estate because of his humility."; | ||
maxim[6][18] = "For young men to make sure of persevering, it is absolutely necessary that they should avoid wicked companions and be familiar with good ones."; | maxim[6][18] = "For young men to make sure of persevering, it is absolutely necessary that they should avoid wicked companions and be familiar with good ones."; | ||
maxim[6][19] = "In the spiritual life there are three degrees: the first may be called the animal life; this is the life of those who run after sensible devotion, which God generally gives to beginners, to allure them onwards by that sweetness to the spiritual life, just as an animal is drawn on by a sensible object."; | maxim[6][19] = "In the spiritual life there are three degrees: the first may be called the animal life; this is the life of those who run after sensible devotion, which God generally gives to beginners, to allure them onwards by that sweetness to the spiritual life, just as an animal is drawn on by a sensible object."; | ||
Revision as of 13:43, 17 June 2015
Virgin Mary, Mother of God
- Maxims from September 7 and 8
- To obtain the protection of our Blessed Lady in our most urgent wants, it is very useful to say sixty-three times, after the fashion of a Rosary, “Virgin Mary, Mother of God, pray to Jesus for me.â€
- When we make this prayer to our Blessed Lady, we give her every possible praise in the least possible compass, because we call her by her name of MARY, and give her those two great titles of Virgin, and Mother of God, and then name JESUS, the fruit of her most pure womb.