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CHAPTER XV.
OTHER FEASTDAYS CELEBRATED BY THE MOST BLESSED
MARY IN MEMORY OF THE CIRCUMCISION, THE ADORA
TION OF THE KINGS, HER PURIFICATION, THE BAP
TISM OF THE LORD, HIS FAST, THE INSTITUTION OF
BLESSED SACRAMENT, HIS PASSION AND RESURREC
TION.
662. In renewing the memory of the mysteries of the
life and death of Christ the Savior, our great Queen
sought not only to give worthy thanks for Herself and
for the whole of the human race, in order, as the Teacher
of all holiness and wisdom, to lead the Church to this
holy science of gratitude but besides ;
fulfilling this debt
of thanks, She also sought to draw down God s infinite
bounty and merciful clemency to meet the weakness and
misery of the human kind. The most prudent Mother
knew that her divine Son and the eternal Father were
much repelled by the sins of mortals, and that at the
tribunal of his mercy they had no other claim than the
infinite charity by which God had lovingly reconciled
them to Him though they were sinners and his enemies
(Rom. 5, 8). As Christ our Savior had accomplished
this reconciliation by his works and the mysteries of
his life and death, the heavenly Lady thought these very
days, on which the works of Christ had been performed,
most convenient and proper for multiplying her prayers
to the Omnipotent, beseeching Him to show his love
for love s sake to call them to his faith and friendship,
and to justify them for no other reason than because
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