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maxim[7][5] = "Whenever we do a good work, and somebody else takes the credit of it, we ought to rejoice, and acknowledge it as a gift from God. Anyhow, we ought not to be sorry, because if others diminish our glory before men, we shall recover it with all the more honor before God."; | maxim[7][5] = "Whenever we do a good work, and somebody else takes the credit of it, we ought to rejoice, and acknowledge it as a gift from God. Anyhow, we ought not to be sorry, because if others diminish our glory before men, we shall recover it with all the more honor before God."; | ||
maxim[7][6] = "Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it."; | maxim[7][6] = "Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it."; | ||
maxim[7][7] = "We ought not to publish or manifest to every one the inspirations which God sends us, or the favors He grants us. | maxim[7][7] = "We ought not to publish or manifest to every one the inspirations which God sends us, or the favors He grants us. My secret is for me!"; | ||
maxim[7][8] = "In order to avoid all risk of vainglory, we ought to make some of our particular devotions in our own rooms, and never seek for sweetness and sensible consolations in public places."; | maxim[7][8] = "In order to avoid all risk of vainglory, we ought to make some of our particular devotions in our own rooms, and never seek for sweetness and sensible consolations in public places."; | ||
maxim[7][9] = "The true medicine to cure us of pride is to keep down and thwart touchiness of mind."; | maxim[7][9] = "The true medicine to cure us of pride is to keep down and thwart touchiness of mind."; | ||
Revision as of 09:17, 7 July 2021
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.