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  1 Prol |     worthily said of Our Blessed Mother redounds wholly to the praise
  2 Prol |      praise of His most glorious Mother, I have judged it fitting
  3 Prol |       Salutation of this Blessed Mother. But I acknowledge my utter
  4 Prol |          the glory of the Virgin Mother." And giving his reasons
  5 Prol |         of God bestowed upon His Mother the gift of fecundity, yet
  6 Prol | therefore, my most kind Lady and Mother, graciously accept this
  7 I    |        sin. Thus it behooved the Mother of God to be, as St. Anselm
  8 I    |         should be of a most pure mother, that the purity of the
  9 II   |          Oh, how blessed is that Mother who without stain conceived
 10 II   |          both of the Son and the Mother that the Prophet saith: "
 11 III  |        his humanity. Mary is the Mother of one in the body, of the
 12 III  |     Bernard saith: "Thou art the Mother of the King, thou art the
 13 III  |        of the King, thou art the Mother of the exile; thou art the
 14 III  |          the exile; thou art the Mother of God, the Judge, and thou
 15 III  |          Judge, and thou art the Mother of God and of man; as thou
 16 III  |          of man; as thou art the Mother of both, thou canst not
 17 III  |       confidence, O safe refuge, Mother of God and our Mother!"
 18 III  |    refuge, Mother of God and our Mother!" The two sons of Mary were
 19 III  |  testifies, saying: "That loving Mother crying out with intensity
 20 III  |      lessen the virginity of His Mother." O most truly blessed,
 21 III  |       higher. If I call thee the mother of nations, thou art above
 22 IV   |          announced; Mary is made Mother of God; Mary is set before
 23 IV   |         Simeon) said to Mary His Mother: Behold this Child is set
 24 IV   |         the women, and Mary, the Mother of Jesus" (Acts I, 14.)
 25 IV   |         shepherds found the poor Mother, Mary, and the poor Infant
 26 IV   |          poor manger. But if the Mother had not been poor, she would
 27 IV   |       Mary to be both Virgin and Mother, for true fecundity glorified
 28 V    |       grace from the womb of her mother. What wonder if Mary grows
 29 V    |         Augustine say: "A virgin mother was chosen, who would conceive
 30 V    |      shall I worthily praise the Mother of my Lord and God, by whose
 31 V    |         of eternal beatitude." O Mother of grace, make us sons of
 32 VI   |       life and truth, who is the Mother of Him who was "full of
 33 VI   |         blessed finder of grace, mother of life, mother of salvation,
 34 VI   |        of grace, mother of life, mother of salvation, that by thee
 35 VI   |       affectionately saluted the mother of the Precursor that even
 36 VI   |          even the infant in that mother's womb exulted. This is
 37 VI   |        complaints to beseech the Mother of Mercy to say to her Son
 38 VI   |          is merciful, she is the Mother of Mercy. For if she had
 39 VI   |       sanctified by grace in her mother's womb that it is believed
 40 VI   |         was that she alone was a mother and at the same time an
 41 VI   |       she alone is the ineffable Mother of the Son, the Mother of
 42 VI   | ineffable Mother of the Son, the Mother of that Son of whom alone
 43 VI   |            She merited to be the mother of the Redeemer." He also
 44 VI   |       who hast merited to be the Mother of the Redeemer and of the
 45 VI   |       thee above all as His true Mother and Spouse, is joined to
 46 VII  |        sex, not in corruption; a mother of virtue, who encompassed
 47 VII  |         and the good fame of His mother." St. Jerome saith: "The
 48 VII  |      much more is the joy of the Mother of God full and complete?
 49 VII  |         and the good fame of His mother." St. Jerome saith: "The
 50 VII  |      much more is the joy of the Mother of God full and complete?
 51 VIII |        Lady of the World, to the Mother of Him, who cleanseth the
 52 VIII |          Heaven and on earth the Mother of the Creator has power.
 53 IX   |        divine mercy is Mary, the Mother of mercy, in whom all find
 54 IX   |    wonderful than to be a virgin mother, and the Mother of God ?
 55 IX   |         a virgin mother, and the Mother of God ? What wonder if
 56 X    |     CHAPTER X MARY THE DAUGHTER, MOTHER, SPOUSE, AND HANDMAID OF
 57 X    |  virginal court of His most Holy Mother. Mary is singularly, both
 58 X    |        daughter of the Lord, the mother of the Lord, the spouse
 59 X    |          Mary is the most worthy Mother; He is the Holy Ghost and
 60 X    |          Most High Eternity, the Mother of the Most High Truth,
 61 X    |       the Lord whose most worthy mother she is. Of this Lord and
 62 X    |         Of this Lord and of this mother Elizabeth said: "Whence
 63 X    |          is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to
 64 X    |          should come to me?" The Mother of the Lord, the Virgin
 65 X    |         the Lord, the Virgin and Mother, is a most worthy mother.
 66 X    |         Mother, is a most worthy mother. She is the Mother who is
 67 X    |        worthy mother. She is the Mother who is most becoming to
 68 X    |        to such a Son. She is the Mother to whom such a Son is most
 69 X    |    greater Heaven, but a greater mother than the Mother of God He
 70 X    |          greater mother than the Mother of God He could not make.
 71 X    |         Bernard saith: "No other mother was becoming to God than
 72 X    |          could not be born. This mother is, therefore, the flower
 73 X    |         the flower of mercy, the mother of the Sun of justice, the
 74 X    |          the Sun of justice, the mother of the Fountain of wisdom,
 75 X    |          Fountain of wisdom, the mother of the King of glory. She
 76 X    |        King of glory. She is the mother of Him, I say, whose mercy
 77 X    |          Mary is, therefore, the mother of Him who is in fact our
 78 X    |         can truly say: "I am the mother of fair love, and of fear,
 79 X    |       XXIV, 24.) But is Mary the Mother of Christ only? Nay, what
 80 X    |      joyful, she is not only the Mother of Christ, but also the
 81 X    |          of Christ, but also the Mother of all the faithful. St.
 82 X    |        brought forth Christ, the mother of all believers?" Oh, dearly
 83 X    |     Brother, by whom Mary is our Mother; and blessed is the Mother,
 84 X    |       Mother; and blessed is the Mother, by whom Christ is our Brother."
 85 X    |           Anselm says: "Lady and Mother, by whom we have such a
 86 X    |         a son with a most worthy mother.~Thirdly, note that this
 87 X    |          nature assumed from His mother? He Himself confesses it
 88 X    |          who is chosen to be His Mother; nor is she elated by the
 89 X    |      more noble; the Lord, whose mother thou art, than whom none
 90 XI   |   Psalmist says: "In sins did my mother conceive me." Because all
 91 XI   |         nor concupiscence in the mother, nor the embrace of a father.
 92 XI   |           and the Son before the Mother. The Son shows His naked
 93 XI   |   infancy served Him as a loving Mother, so that even to the death
 94 XII  |          Innocent: "Hail, loving Mother of God, who from the dignity
 95 XII  |        dignity by which thou art Mother of God, hast power to restrain
 96 XII  |         and fed Him. Mary is the Mother of God, the servant of God,
 97 XIII |       festive array, to meet the Mother of God, surrounded her with
 98 XIII |        taken up into glory." The Mother of God, therefore, entered
 99 XIV  |          women, finder of grace, Mother of life, Mother of salvation."
100 XIV  |        of grace, Mother of life, Mother of salvation." Blessed art
101 XIV  |      rejoicest in the honor of a mother and the beauty of virginity,
102 XIV  |          because of its fruit! O Mother truly blessed above all
103 XIV  |        God, since by the blessed Mother of God, it is acceptable
104 XIV  |         to the protection of the Mother of the Lord, in all the
105 XIV  |         the Lord is the glorious Mother of God, who is truly blessed
106 XIV  |        blessed is our crown, our Mother Mary. Let us all, therefore,
107 XIV  |        Mary; the Son blessed His Mother; the Holy Ghost blessed
108 XV   |     cross, who blessed thee, His Mother, in Heaven. But thou wert
109 XV   |       Anselm say of this blessed Mother: "O blessed and exalted
110 XV   |         if thou, O Lady, art the Mother of God, are not thy other
111 XV   |       yes, by means of the first mother of the human race he excluded
112 XV   |      exclusion was lifted by the Mother of our Savior. Well, therefore,
113 XV   |     forth the curse of the first mother was excluded from those
114 XV   | according to Haymon, the Blessed Mother of God had the moon beneath
115 XV   |           we have access to God, Mother of life, Mother of salvation,
116 XV   |          to God, Mother of life, Mother of salvation, that by thee
117 XVI  |     Fruit of thy womb, O Blessed Mother of the Son of God ! This
118 XVI  |         O Mary, thou wilt be the Mother of Him whose Father is God;
119 XVI  |        fragrance. Therefore, the Mother of this Fruit can well say
120 XVI  |         seek that most beautiful Mother herself, and let us speak
121 XVI  |         Father, beautiful in His Mother as the Word and as Flesh"
122 XVI  |          Ps. LXVI, 7.) O blessed Mother of this blessed Fruit, grant
123 XVII |       the flesh, one only is the Mother of Christ; nevertheless,
124 XVII |       from man, the Son from the Mother, the fruit from the earth"
125 XVIII|        tree of life is Mary, the Mother of Life; or the tree of
126 XVIII|       give that is worthy of the Mother of my Lord and God, by whose
127 XVIII|      angels. Therefore Mary, the Mother of this fruit, may well