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maxim[12][12] = "Penitents should never make vows without the advice of their spiritual fathers."; | maxim[12][12] = "Penitents should never make vows without the advice of their spiritual fathers."; | ||
maxim[12][13] = "If we do make such vows, it is best to make them conditionally: for example, “I make a vow to have two masses said on St. Lucy’s day, with the reservation, 'If I can, if I do not forget it,' because if I do not remember it, I do not wish to be bound.â€"; | maxim[12][13] = "If we do make such vows, it is best to make them conditionally: for example, “I make a vow to have two masses said on St. Lucy’s day, with the reservation, 'If I can, if I do not forget it,' because if I do not remember it, I do not wish to be bound.â€"; | ||
maxim[12][14] = "When a man has to buy anything, he ought not to do so because he is moved by an attachment to the thing, but from want and necessity; for it will never do to | maxim[12][14] = "When a man has to buy anything, he ought not to do so because he is moved by an attachment to the thing, but from want and necessity; for it will never do to act out of a disordered desire for the thing."; | ||
maxim[12][15] = "Certain little voluntary attachments of self-love must be cut through, and then we must dig round them, and then remove the earth, till we get down deep enough to find the place where they are rooted and interlaced together."; | maxim[12][15] = "Certain little voluntary attachments of self-love must be cut through, and then we must dig round them, and then remove the earth, till we get down deep enough to find the place where they are rooted and interlaced together."; | ||
maxim[12][16] = "A person must be ready to endure, when through a virtuous motive he is mortified by others, and even when God permits him to be in such bad odor with others that he is regarded and driven away as an infected sheep."; | maxim[12][16] = "A person must be ready to endure, when through a virtuous motive he is mortified by others, and even when God permits him to be in such bad odor with others that he is regarded and driven away as an infected sheep."; | ||
Revision as of 15:20, 14 December 2013
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.