Chapter

  1 I   |        Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed
  2 I   |     saluted in the words: Blessed art thou among women! For it
  3 II  |           truly say to her: "Thou art all fair, O my beloved,
  4 II  |         to the sinner: "Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt
  5 III |       Augustine says: "Mary, thou art full of grace, which thou
  6 III |          St. Bernard saith: "Thou art the Mother of the King,
  7 III |          Mother of the King, thou art the Mother of the exile;
  8 III |         Mother of the exile; thou art the Mother of God, the Judge,
  9 III |          God, the Judge, and thou art the Mother of God and of
 10 III |           God and of man; as thou art the Mother of both, thou
 11 III |          I call thee heaven, thou art higher. If I call thee the
 12 III |           mother of nations, thou art above this praise. If I
 13 III |         thee Lady of angels, thou art truly proved to be so; if
 14 III |         type or form of God, thou art worthy of this name." Now
 15 V   | Ecclesiasticus: "The greater thou art, the more humble thyself
 16 V   |   therefore, O most immense Mary, art more capacious than the
 17 V   |           borne in thy womb. Thou art more capacious than the
 18 VI  |         thou above all the saints art solicitous for the holy
 19 VI  |           beseech thee, that thou art my sister, that it may be
 20 VI  |           our Sara, say that thou art our sister, that because
 21 VI  |           beloved Sara, that thou art our sister, that, for the
 22 VIII|  powerfully with thee: therefore, art thou most powerful with
 23 VIII|         thee, therefore, thou too art most wise with Him and through
 24 VIII|         Him and through Him. Thou art typified by that Abigail,
 25 VIII|         thee so richly, therefore art thou most rich together
 26 VIII|        thee, therefore, thou also art unfailing with Him in eternity.
 27 VIII|         Him in eternity. For thou art that unfailing, that everlasting
 28 VIII|           such a manner that thou art most powerful with Him.
 29 VIII|           in such a way that thou art most wise with Him. The
 30 VIII|       thee in such wise that thou art most rich with Him. The
 31 IX  |       Prophet saith: "Thou, Lord, art sweet and mild, and of much
 32 IX  |         with thee, therefore thou art most merciful with Him,
 33 IX  |           X, 8.) And again: "Thou art just, O Lord, and Thy judgment
 34 IX  |         just with thee, therefore art thou most just together
 35 IX  |       together with Him. For thou art the rod of Aaron, straight,
 36 IX  |   faithfully with thee, therefore art thou most faithful together
 37 IX  |       together with Him. For thou art that most faithful dove
 38 IX  |           Thee, O Lord, and great art Thou, and great is Thy name" (
 39 IX  |      renowned a manner, therefore art thou most renowned together
 40 IX  |       together with Him. For thou art well prefigured by Ruth,
 41 IX  |           a manner that thou also art most loving. The most just
 42 IX  |          thou, together with Him, art most just; the most renowned
 43 IX  |          also, together with Him, art most renowned. O most loving
 44 X   |         which Booz said: "Blessed art thou of the Lord, my daughter,
 45 X   |          beloved in thy delights, art drawn to the glory of thy
 46 X   |  according to that word: "Blessed art thou who hast believed,
 47 X   |         Lord, whose daughter thou art, than whom none is more
 48 X   |           Lord, whose mother thou art, than whom none is more
 49 X   |           Lord, whose spouse thou art, than whom none is more
 50 X   |         Lord, whose handmaid thou art, than whom none is more
 51 XI  |           to the Virgin: "Blessed art thou among women," and by
 52 XI  |          testifies, saying: "Thou art the most vivid image of
 53 XII |           brought forth the Lord, art of the land of Israel; thou
 54 XII |            speaking to her: "Thou art as a garden-plot of holy
 55 XII |         the dignity by which thou art Mother of God, hast power
 56 XII |          testifies, saying: "Thou art the casket of holy perfumes,
 57 XIII|          the angel said: "Blessed art thou among women." Likewise
 58 XIV |    GREATNESS OF HER GLORY~Blessed art thou among women. It has
 59 XIV |   blessedness by saying, "Blessed art thou among women," that
 60 XIV |           therefore say: "Blessed art thou among women"; blessed,
 61 XIV |        Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women." Blessed
 62 XIV |        thou among women." Blessed art thou, because thou art full
 63 XIV |    Blessed art thou, because thou art full of grace. Thou hast
 64 XIV |           God, and therefore thou art blessed with the Lord. St.
 65 XIV |     Mother of salvation." Blessed art thou, O Mary, because of
 66 XIV |         Bernard says: "Truly thou art the Paradise of God, who
 67 XIV |         as in the Canticle: "Thou art all fair, O my beloved."
 68 XIV |         most dear Mary, that thou art truly blessed because of
 69 XIV |           says: "Not because thou art blessed, is the fruit of
 70 XIV |           of sweetness, therefore art thou blessed." Mary is blessed
 71 XIV |          Augustine says: "Blessed art thou among women, who hast
 72 XIV |        Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women." How "
 73 XIV |         womb." Therefore, blessed art thou together with Him,
 74 XIV |        Because of thy Child, thou art blessed before thy delivery;
 75 XIV |        because of thy Child, thou art blessed in bringing forth;
 76 XIV |        because of thy Child, thou art blessed after bringing forth.
 77 XIV |     bringing forth. Truly blessed art thou, who hast so brought
 78 XIV |            Bede well says: "Truly art thou blessed among women,
 79 XIV |      cried out and said: "Blessed art thou among women, and blessed
 80 XIV |        thy womb." Therefore, thou art blessed indeed, because
 81 XIV |          blessed Son of thy womb, art truly blessed with a divine
 82 XIV |         whom it is said: "Blessed art thou by the Lord, because
 83 XIV |        most sweet Mary, that thou art truly blessed because of
 84 XIV |    appeased towards man.; Blessed art thou, because by thee man
 85 XIV |          pleasing to God; blessed art thou, because by thee the
 86 XIV |          one voice, saying: 'Thou art the glory of Jerusalem,
 87 XIV |          glory of Jerusalem, thou art the joy of Israel, thou
 88 XIV |           the joy of Israel, thou art the honor of our people."'
 89 XIV |        blessed her, saying: "Thou art the glory of the triumphant
 90 XIV |           of all the Saints; thou art the joy of Israel, contemplating
 91 XIV |           contemplating God; thou art the joy, I say, of all the
 92 XIV |           of all the angels; thou art the honor of our people
 93 XIV |           pilgrims, that is, thou art the honor of all the just
 94 XIV |           sweet Virgin Mary, thou art truly blessed among women,
 95 XV  |       SEVEN CAPITAL VICES~Blessed art thou among women. Let us
 96 XV  |          sinful soul, but blessed art thou, O virtuous Mary. The
 97 XV  |      virtues. Blessed, therefore, art thou among women, O Mary.
 98 XV  |           earth by the Angel, and art rightly called blessed on
 99 XV  |         the envious Cain: "Cursed art thou upon earth, which has
100 XV  |      utter ? For if thou, O Lady, art the Mother of God, are not
101 XV  |      Venerable Bede say: "Blessed art thou among women, by whose
102 XV  |         Bede, who says: "Not only art thou blessed among women,
103 XV  |        women who are blessed thou art eminent by a greater blessing."~
104 XV  |            Bernard says: "Blessed art thou among women, thou who
105 XV  |           one voice, saying: Thou art the glory of Jerusalem,
106 XV  |          glory of Jerusalem, thou art the joy of Israel, thou
107 XV  |           the joy of Israel, thou art the honor of our people:
108 XV  |       testifies, saying: "Blessed art thou among women." She is
109 XV  |         Thus, therefore, thou who art so manifoldly blessed, thou
110 XVI |         fruit; thine, O soul, who art drawn to love this Fruit;
111 XVI |             Therefore, thou alone art most sweet, because thou
112 XVI |         sweet, because thou alone art Most High. But how can that
113 XVI |          Thou, therefore, O Mary, art truly the tree of salvation,
114 XVII| Ecclesiasticus: "The greater thou art, the more humble thyself