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maxim[7][27] = "To obtain perfectly the gift of humility, four things are required: to despise the world, to despise no one else, to despise oneself, and to despise being despised.";
maxim[7][27] = "To obtain perfectly the gift of humility, four things are required: to despise the world, to despise no one else, to despise oneself, and to despise being despised.";
maxim[7][28] = "Perfection consists in leading captive our own will, and in playing the king over it.";
maxim[7][28] = "Perfection consists in leading captive our own will, and in playing the king over it.";
maxim[7][29] = "A man ought to mortify his understanding in little things, if he wishes easily to mortify it in great ones, and to advance in the way of virtue.";
maxim[7][29] = "A man ought to mortify his understanding in little things if he wishes to mortify it easily in great ones and to advance in the way of virtue.";
maxim[7][30] = "Without mortification nothing can be done.";
maxim[7][30] = "Without mortification nothing can be done.";
maxim[7][31] = "We ought to hope for and love the glory of God by means of a good life.";
maxim[7][31] = "We ought to hope for and love the glory of God by means of a good life.";

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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.”
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.