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maxim[6][8] = "To feel any displeasure because we are refused Communion is a sign of hardiness, pride, and a want of mortification."; | maxim[6][8] = "To feel any displeasure because we are refused Communion is a sign of hardiness, pride, and a want of mortification."; | ||
maxim[6][9] = "Those who are going to Communion should prepare themselves for more temptations than usual, for the Lord will not have us stand idle."; | maxim[6][9] = "Those who are going to Communion should prepare themselves for more temptations than usual, for the Lord will not have us stand idle."; | ||
maxim[6][10] = "It is a good thing, during the week that follows our communion-day, to do something more than usual; for example, to say five Our Fathers and Hail | maxim[6][10] = "It is a good thing, during the week that follows our communion-day, to do something more than usual; for example, to say five Our Fathers and Hail Marys with our arms extended, or an extra rosary."; | ||
maxim[6][11] = "It is not a good thing to load ourselves with many spiritual exercises; it is better to undertake a little, and go on with it: for if the devil can persuade us to omit an exercise once, he will easily get us to omit it the second time, and the third, until at last all our pious practices will melt away."; | maxim[6][11] = "It is not a good thing to load ourselves with many spiritual exercises; it is better to undertake a little, and go on with it: for if the devil can persuade us to omit an exercise once, he will easily get us to omit it the second time, and the third, until at last all our pious practices will melt away."; | ||
maxim[6][12] = "We must take care of little faults: for he who once begins to go backward and to make light of such defects brings a sort of grossness over his conscience, and then goes wrong altogether."; | maxim[6][12] = "We must take care of little faults: for he who once begins to go backward and to make light of such defects brings a sort of grossness over his conscience, and then goes wrong altogether."; | ||
Revision as of 07:53, 7 June 2016
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.