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CHAPTER XII.
HOW THE MOST BLESSED MARY CELEBRATED HER IMMAC
ULATE CONCEPTION AND NATIVITY; AND THE BLESS
INGS WHICH SHE RECEIVED ON THOSE DAYS FROM
HER SON OUR SAVIOR JESUS.
611. All the offices and titles of honor, which the most
blessed Mary held in the Church, that of Queen, Mistress,
Mother, Governess and Teacher, and all the rest, were
given to her by the Omnipotent not as empty and fruitless
names, but were accompanied by the superabundant pleni
tude of grace which is
proper and which the Almighty
can communicate to each. This plenitude consisted in
this, that as Queen She knew all that concerned her reign
and its extent ;
as Mistress She knew the measure of her
power; as Mother She knew all the children and de
pendents of her household, without excepting anyone
through all the ages of the Church until the end; as
Governess She knew all that were subject to Her; and as
Teacher, She possessed the wisdom and science through
which the holy Church, by her intercession, was to be
instructed and guided, while enjoying the presence and
the influence of the Holy Ghost until the end of the
world.
612. Hence our great Queen had a clear knowledge
not only of all the saints that preceded or followed Her
in the Church, of their lives, their works, their deaths, and
rewards in heaven ;
but also of all the rites, ceremonies,
decisions, and festivities of the Church in course of the
ages, and of all the reasons, motives, necessities and
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