Mary Obtains Salvation For All Who Have

To Be Silent When We Are Impelled To Utter Words Injurious To God Or To Our Neighbour, Is An Act Of Virtue; But, To Be Silent In Confessing Our Sins, Is The Ruin Of The Soul.

He Who Desires Nothing But God Is Rich And Happy.

Jesus Is The Mediator Of Justice; Mary Obtains For Us Grace; For, As St. Bernard, St. Bonaventure, St. Bernardine Of Siena, St. Germanus, St. Antoninus, And Others Say, It Is The Will Of God To Dispense Through The Hands Of Mary Whatever Graces He Is Pleased To Bestow Upon Us. With God, The Prayers Of The Saints Are The Prayers Of His Friends, But The Prayers Of Mary Are The Prayers Of His Mother.

"the Flowers Have Appeared In Our Land: The Time Of Pruning Is Come: The Voice Of The Turtle-dove Is Heard In Our Land." When The Soul, Like The Solitary Turtle-dove, Retires And Recollects Itself In Meditation To Converse With God, Then The Flowers, That Is, Good Desires, Appear; Then Comes The Time Of Pruning, That Is, The Correction Of Faults That Are Discovered In Mental Prayer.

The Brightest Ornaments In The Crown Of The Blessed In Heaven Are The Sufferings Which They Have Borne Patiently On Earth.