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maxim[3][19] = "It is God’s custom to interweave human life with a trouble and a consolation, at least of an interior sort, alternately.";
maxim[3][19] = "It is God’s custom to interweave human life with a trouble and a consolation, at least of an interior sort, alternately.";
maxim[3][20] = "Young men should be very careful to avoid idleness.";
maxim[3][20] = "Young men should be very careful to avoid idleness.";
maxim[3][21] = "When fathers have given their sons a good education, and put everything clearly and distinctly in train for them, the sons who succeed them and continue to follow the road marked out for them will have the advantage of seeing their family persevere in holy ways and in the fear of God.";
maxim[3][21] = "When fathers have given their sons a good education, and set them on the right track, the sons who succeed them and continue to follow the road marked out for them will have the advantage of seeing their family persevere in holy ways and in the fear of God.";
maxim[3][22] = "In order to preserve their purity, young men should frequent the Sacraments, and especially confession.";
maxim[3][22] = "In order to preserve their purity, young men should frequent the Sacraments, and especially confession.";
maxim[3][23] = "We must never trust ourselves, for it is the devil’s way first to get us to feel secure, and then to make us fall.";
maxim[3][23] = "We must never trust ourselves, for it is the devil’s way first to get us to feel secure, and then to make us fall.";

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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.