Chapter

 1 II   |       virtues, and the perfume of virtue." Because Mary was far from
 2 II   |         Mary, there is nothing of virtue, nothing of beauty, nothing
 3 III  |           all hope of life and of virtue" (XXIV, 25.) What wonder
 4 III  |        faith in the Cross, and by virtue of the light which Mary,
 5 IV   |        AND RESPLENDENT WITH EVERY VIRTUE~Hail Mary. This most sweet
 6 IV   |        who is glorious with every virtue. She is Mary, who was entirely
 7 V    |           was the dwelling of all virtue and grace? St. John Damascene
 8 V    |        made the dwelling of every virtue." Likewise Mary delivers
 9 VI   |     merited greater privileges of virtue, and received grace praised
10 VI   |        hesitate to believe in her virtue in other things, and fear
11 VII  |           corruption; a mother of virtue, who encompassed Our Lord
12 VIII |       gathered together riches of virtue and grace, of merits and
13 IX   |            Be thou the example of virtue in Ephrata, and have a celebrated
14 XI   |           in all the glory of all virtue she was, as it were, in
15 XII  |        indeed devoid of grace and virtue. The aromatical spice, the
16 XII  |            and then the flower of virtue will appear again. Oh, with
17 XII  |            yea, the flower of any virtue has, as it were, as many
18 XII  |        Mary, who in the flowering virtue of her life flourished in
19 XII  | flourished in the beauty of every virtue, as St. Bernard testifies,
20 XII  |        beautiful flowers of every virtue, among which three are excellent
21 XIII |         by advancing in grace and virtue, she entered in by attaining,
22 XIII |          speaking to her: "By the virtue of chastity thou didst extinguish
23 XV   |    earnestly always ascended from virtue to virtue, from a lower
24 XV   |           ascended from virtue to virtue, from a lower to a higher
25 XV   |          we prefer before her the virtue of the widow Anna, and much
26 XVI  |           delight, most useful in virtue, most universal in its abundance.~
27 XVI  |          not only in its salvific virtue, not only more powerful
28 XVI  |        powerful by its preserving virtue. Of this fruit we may understand
29 XVII |         flower, that is, from one virtue to another, from one good
30 XVII |         tree, for our progress in virtue now bears fruit in us."~
31 XVII |           dwelling-place of every virtue." Alas, how far from this
32 XVIII|       servant who is a sinner, by virtue of the blessed Fruit of
33 XVIII|       shall let no opportunity of virtue pass, and so he shall be