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412 Material for Instructions. CPARTII.
she is the greatest motive of my confidence; she is the
only cause of my concludes hope."
by saying that
we should ask all the graces of which we stand in need,
through Mary, because she obtains whatever she asks,
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and her prayers cannot be rejected. Before him St.
Ephrem said the same: most sincere Virgin only in
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thee do we repose confidence." :
St. Ildephonsus teaches
the same doctrine: All the good decreed by the sublime
majesty for the benefit of men, this she has decreed to
be conveyed to them through the hands of Mary; for
to thee, O Mary
! has been intrusted treasures and
ornaments of grace."
The same is held by St. Peter
"
Damian: In thy hands are all the treasures of divine
mercies." 5 St. Bernardine of Sienna says: "Thou art
the dispenser of all graces; our salvation rests in thy
hands. This, too, was the doctrine of St. John Da
mascene, of St. Germanus, of St. Anselm, of St. Antonine,
of Idiota, and of so many other learned authors,
such as Segneri, Pacciuchelli, Crasset, Vega, Mendoza,
and Natalis Alexander, who says:
"He
[God] wishes
that we should receive all the good that we wish from
him through the mediation of his powerful Mother, by
invoking her as we should. Father Contenson has
1 "
Filioli, haec peccatorum scala, haec mea maxima fiducia est, haec
tota ratio spei meae."
2
"Quaeramus gratiam, et per Mariam quaeramus; quia, quod quaerit,
De A quad.
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Nobis non "
est alia quam a te fiducia, o Virgo sincerissima !" De
invenit, et frustrari non potest.
Laud. B. M. V.
4
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bona quae illic summa Majestas decrevit facere, tuis
manibus voluit commendare; commissi quippe sunt tibi thesauri . . .
et ornamenta gratiarum." De Cor. Virg. c. 15.
5 "
s. i.
In manibus tuis sunt thesauri miserationum Domini."
De Nativ.
6 " Tu Dispensatrix omnium gratiarum; salus nostra in manu tua
est."
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Deus vult ut omnia bona ab ipso exspectemus, potentissima Virginis
Matris intercessione, cum earn, ut par est, invocamus, impetranda."
Ep. 50 in cake Theol.