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CHAPTER XIV.
THE WONDERFUL MANNER IN WHICH THE MOST BLESSED
MARY CELEBRATED THE MYSTERIES OF THE INCARNA
TION AND NATIVITY OF THE GODMAN, AND HOW SHE
GAVE THANKS FOR THESE IMMENSE BLESSINGS.
642. As the most holy Mary was so faithful in smaller
things, there can be no doubt that She was faithful in
the greater.
If She was solicitous and diligent in giving
thanks for the minor blessings, certainly She would ren
der the full measure of thanks for the more important
benefits conferred by the Most High upon Her and all
the human race. Among these the Incarnation of the
eternal Word in the womb of the most blessed and pure
for this was the most ex
Mother takes the first place;
cellent work and the greatest grace possible to God s
finite power and wisdom in his dealings with men. The
joining of the divine essence with the human being in
the person of the Word through hypostatic union was
the beginning of all the gifts and blessings
in
of the Om
nipotent conferred upon the human as well as upon the
angelic nature. This truth is more intelligible, when we
take into consideration what faith teaches: that the
divine Wisdom foresaw in eternity the ingratitude of
the reprobate and their abuse and waste of the wonder
ful blessing of the Incarnation of the true God, by which
He became the Teacher, Redeemer and model of all the
mortals.
643. Hence the infinite Wisdom marvelously provided,
that among men there
should be some One, who could
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