Lectures and sermons . cause itis the month in which the Mother will especially hear ourprayers. Before that month was over, he for whom sheprayed was converted to God, with all the fervor of a trueconversion; and when the month was drawing to a close,the sacrifice of pain and suffering was accepted, and she whobegan the month in sorrow, ended it with the joys of JesusChrist and his Virgin Mother. So it is all the world secret graces are poured out at the instance of Marys even as she was the Spring-time of grace upon earth, so isshe even now in heaven, by her prayer for us
Lectures and sermons . cause itis the month in which the Mother will especially hear ourprayers. Before that month was over, he for whom sheprayed was converted to God, with all the fervor of a trueconversion; and when the month was drawing to a close,the sacrifice of pain and suffering was accepted, and she whobegan the month in sorrow, ended it with the joys of JesusChrist and his Virgin Mother. So it is all the world secret graces are poured out at the instance of Marys even as she was the Spring-time of grace upon earth, so isshe even now in heaven, by her prayer for us the spring-time ofholy grace, obtaining for us the grace of repentance, the graceof prayer, the grace of temperance, the grace and power of self- 34 530 The Month of Mary. restraint--in a word, whatever grace we demand, that, spring-ing up in our souls, will produce to-day the flower and leaf ofpromise—to-morrow, the fruit of maturity—and for eternity,the reward of grace which is the everlasting crown of Godtglory. f#l|fll^^ THE CATHOLIC CHURCH THETRUE EMANCIPATOR.
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