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her life; at others He withdrew her mind from it
by
diverse enlightenments; at others again He revealed to
Her the secrets of the eternal predestination, in order that
her heart might be quieted by seeing into the equity of
his divine Justice. All these and other measures were
applied by Christ the Savior in order that his most
blessed Mother might not die at the sight of the sins
and the eternal damnation of the reprobate. And if this
unhappy and calamitous fate of sinners as foreseen by
the heavenly Lady, could so afflict her purest heart, and
if it could so move her divine Son, that He subjected
Himself for their salvation to the sufferings and death
of the Cross, what words can describe the blind foolish
ness of those men, who so senselessly rush upon their ir
reparable and never sufficiently to be dreaded ruin of
their souls?
665. But the manner in which our Savior and Mas
ter Jesus alleviated the sorrows of his beloved Mother,
was by listening to her petitions and prayers for mortals,
by showing his appreciation of her love, by offering
Her his treasures and infinite merits, by constituting
Her his principal almoner, and by consigning into Her
hands the free and loving distribution of all the trea
sures of his mercy and grace, and thus bring succor to
the souls whom in her deep science She knew to be in
greatest need thereof. These promises of the Lord
to his most blessed Mother, as well as the solicitude and
prayers of the loving Queen, were of ordinary and con
stant occurrence ;
and they were still more notable on the
festivals commemorating the mysteries of her divine
Son. For the day of the Circumcision She commenced
her exercises at the same hour as at the other feasts;
and the incarnate Word descended to her oratory with
the same majesty and accompanied by the angels and the
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