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in mind the Lord s passion; and hence the powerful
Queen has promised to all such souls, especial assistance
and participation in the treasures of the Passion; for
She desired from her inmost heart, that the Church
should continue and preserve
its commemoration. In
virtue of her wishes and prayers the Lord ordained, that
afterwards many persons in the holy Church should
follow these exercises of the Passion, imitating his most
blessed Mother, who was the first one to teach and prac
tice such an exalted profession.
582. In these exercises the great Queen sought espe
cially to celebrate the institution of the most blessed
Sacrament by new hymns of praise, of thanksgiving
and fervent love. She was solicitous to invite for this
purpose her own angels and many others from the em
pyrean heaven, in order to assist and accompany Her
in these praises of the Lord. It was a wonder worthy
of his Omnipotence, that the Most High should send
from heaven multitudes of angels to view this prodigy
of Christ s
remaining sacramentally present in her heart
from one Communion to the other and to incite them to
give glory and praise for the wonderful effects of his
sacramental presence in this Creature, whom they beheld
more pure and more holy than the angels and seraphim
and the like of which they had not seen or would ever
see in all
the rest of creation.
583. It was not less wonderful to them (just as it
ought to be to us) to see, that though the great Queen
was worthy of preserving within Herself the sacred
species as in a tabernacle, She was so solicitous in pre
paring Herself anew by the most fervid exercises and
devotions every time She was again to receive holy
Communion ;
and this She did nearly every day except on
^those in which She remained in her oratory.
She first
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