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526 CITY OF GOD
This was the manner in which her Immaculate Concep
tion was solemnized after the Ascension of her divine
Son. Now this feast is celebrated in a different manner,
as I will describe in another book, which I have orders
to write concerning the holy Jerusalem, the Church tri
umphant, if the Lord shall concede this grace to me. This
feast and others She began to celebrate from the time
of the Incarnation; for finding Herself to be the Mother
of God She wished to commemorate the blessings She
had received in virtue of this dignity, and therefore in
this latter part of her life, She requited them in company
with Her holy angels by rendering her worshipful thanks
giving to the .Son of God, who had thus favored Her.
The other exercises She performed in her oratory on re
turning from heaven, and they were of the same kind
as I have often referred to on occasions of special
favors from God ;
for all of them ever increased Her ad
mirable humility.
617. The feast of her Nativity She celebrated on the
eighth of September, on which She was born. She began
on the evening before with the same prostrations and
canticles as at the feast of her Conception. She gave
thanks for having been born to life into the light of this
world, and for the favor of having been raised to
heaven in the hour of her birth to look upon the Divinity
intuitively, as I have narrated in the first part of this
history. She resolved anew to spend her whole life in
fulfilling the pleasure of the Lord, acknowledging that
for this purpose alone it was given to Her. Though in
the first beginning and entrance of her life She had ad
vanced in merit as far as the highest saints and sera
phim, She resolved now, in its latter part, to begin to
labor anew as if She were just beginning the practice
of virtue. She asked the Lord to lend Her his assistance,
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