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The Secret of the Rosary
make ourselves worthy
of the greeting and blessings of Our Lady we shall certainly be filled with
graces and a flood of spiritual consolations will come down into our souls.
Nineteenth Rose
Happy Exchange
IT IS WRITTEN: "Give and it shall be given unto you. "To take Blessed Alan's
illustration of
this: "Supposing each day
I give you one hundred and fifty diamonds, even if you were
my enemy, would you not forgive me? Would you not treat me as a friend and give
me all the graces
that you were able to give? If you want to gain the riches of grace and of
glory, salute the
Blessed Virgin, honor your good Mother." "He that honoreth his mother (the
Blessed Virgin) is as
one that layeth up a treasure."2 So every day do give her at least fifty Hail
Marys for each one is
worth fifteen precious stones and they please Our Lady far more than all the
riches of this world
put together.
And you can expect such great things from her generosity! She is our Mother and
our friend. She is
the empress of the universe and loves us more than all the mothers and queens of
the world
have ever loved any one human being. This is really so, for the charity of the
Blessed Virgin
far surpasses the natural love of all mankind and even of all the angels, as
Saint Augustine
says.
One day Saint Gertrude had a vision of Our Lord counting gold coins. She
summoned the courage to
ask Him what He was doing. He answered: "I am counting the Hail Marys that you
have said; this is
the money with which you can pay your way to Heaven."
The holy and learned Jesuit, Father Suarez, was so deeply aware of the value of
the Angelic
Salutation that he said that he would gladly give all his learning for the price
of one Hail Mary
that had been said properly.
Blessed Alan de la Roche said: "Let everyone who loves you, oh most holy Mary,
listen to this and
drink it in:
1 Luke 6:38.
2 Ecclus. 3:5.
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