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ing in thy eyes as the one chosen for my Mother from
all the creatures and as a testimony to our infinite attri
butes. She alone knows worthily and fully to estimate
and thankfully to acknowledge the favor I have shown
to men in vesting Myself in their nature for the purpose
of teaching them the way of eternal life and saving them
from death. We have chosen Her in order that She
might appease our indignation at the ingratitude and
small return We receive from mortals. She makes up
for what the others are either unable or unwilling to
give; and We cannot despise the prayers which our Be
loved offers for them in the plenitude of her holiness and
entirely to our pleasure."
654. All these marvels were repeated on each of the
last three days of the novena; and on the last, which was
the twenty-fifth of March, at the hour of the Incarnation,
the Divinity manifested Itself to Her intuitively and
with a greater glory than to all the blessed. The saints
received an addition to their accidental joy on all
those
days; but the last was one of greater festivity and of
extraordinary jubilee for the whole of Jerusalem tri
umphant. The favors received by the most blessed
Mother on that day far exceed all human thought; for
all her privileges, graces and gifts were on that day rati
fied and increased by the Almighty in an ineffable man
ner. As She was still a Pilgrim and knew all the con
ditions of the holy Church in the present and the future
ages, She asked and merited great blessings for all times ;
to say it more briefly, She obtained all the blessings
which the divine power wrought for men from the be
ginning and shall work unto the end of the world.
655. On all these feasts celebrated by the great Queen,
She obtained the conversion of innumerable souls, which
at that time and at succeeding
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