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Seventeenth Rose
 
"The words full of grace remind me that the Holy Spirit has showered so many graces upon me that I
am able to give these graces in abundance to those who ask for them through me as Mediatrix.
"When people say The Lord is with thee they renew the
indescribable joy that was mine when the Eternal Word became
incarnate in my womb.
"When you say to me blessed art thou among women I praise
Almighty God's divine mercy which lifted me to this exalted
plane of happiness.
"And at the words blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus,
the whole of heaven rejoices with me to see my Son Jesus. Christ adored and glorified for having
saved mankind."

Seventeenth Rose

The Hail Mary Fruits

BLESSED ALAN DE LA ROCHE who was so deeply devoted to the Blessed Virgin had many revelations from
her and we know that he confirmed the truth of these revelations by a solemn oath. Three of them
stand out with special emphasis: the first, that if people fail to say the Hail Mary (the Angelic
Salutation which has saved the world) out of carelessness, or because they are lukewarm, or because
they hate it, this is a sign that they will probably and indeed shortly be condemned to eternal
punishment.
The second truth is that those who love this divine salutation bear the very special stamp of
predestination.
The third is that those to whom God has given the signal grace of loving Our Lady and of serving
her out of love must take very great care to continue to love and serve her until the time when she
shall have had them placed in heaven by her divine Son in the degree of glory which they have
earned. (Blessed Alan, chapter XI, paragraph 2)
The heretics, all of whom are children of the devil and clearly bear the sign of God's reprobation,
have a horror of the Hail Mary. They still say the Our Father but never the Hail Mary; they would
rather wear a poisonous snake around their necks than wear a scapular or carry a rosary.
Among Catholics those who bear the mark of God's reprobation think but little of the rosary
(whether that of five

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