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CHAPTER XVI.
HOW THE MOST BLESSED MARY CELEBRATED THE FEASTS
OF THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST OUR SAVIOR, THE COM
ING OF THE HOLY GHOST, THE FEAST OF THE HOLY
ANGELS AND SAINTS AND OTHER ANNIVERSARIES OF
FAVORS RECEIVED BY HER.
680. In each one of the works and mysteries of our
great Queen and Lady are found new secrets to penetrate
and new reasons for wonder and praise; but I am run
ning short of new words to make known what I see. From
what I have been made to understand concerning the
love of Christ our Lord for his purest Mother and most
worthy Spouse, it seems to me, that for the sake of this
love, the Lord would have resigned his throne of glory
and the company of the saints to be with his most be
loved Mother, if other reasons had not demanded his
presence in heaven and that of the Virgin upon earth
during the time of her separation and bodily absence.
But let no one say that this high opinion of the excellence
of the Queen derogates from that of her divine Son or
the saints ;
for the Divinity of the Father and the Holy
Ghost was in Christ in its highest individual unity; the
three Persons exist in each one in an inseparable manner,
and the Person of the Word cannot exist without the
Father and the Holy Ghost. It is certain, that the com
pany of the angels was less than that of his most holy
Mother in the eyes of her divine Son ;
that is, considering
the force of reciprocal love between Christ and his purest
Mother. But for other reasons it was befitting, that the
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