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4 6 Material 1 for Instructions. [PART n.
Me and to thee ?
My hour has not yet come? still he granted
the petition of his mother. 2
The prayers of Mary, says St. Germanus, obtain great
graces for the most abandoned sinners, because they
are prayers accompanied with the authority of a mother/
In a word, there is no one, however wicked, whom
Mary does not save by herintercession when she wishes.
Hence St. George, Archbishop of Nicomedia, says, O
Mother of God: Thou hast insuperable strength,
great
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since the multitude of our sins does not outweigh thy
clemency. Nothing resists thy power, for the Creator
regards thy honor as his own." 4 To thee, then, O my
Queen, says St. Peter Damian, nothing is impossible,
since thou canst succor and save even those that are in
despair. 5
II. But if
Mary is powerful, and able to save us by
her intercession, she is
equally merciful, and willing to
obtain our salvation: "Neither the power nor the will
is wanting to 6
her," says St. Bernard. She is called the
Mother of Mercy, because her compassion for us makes
her love and assist us as a mother assists a sick child.
The love of all mothers together, according to Father
Nieremberg, 7 is not equal to the love which Mary bears
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2 "
"Quid mihi et tibi est, mulier ? nondum venit hora mea."
Et licet ita respondent, maternis tamen precibus obtemperavit."
In .
Jo
horn. 21.
3
Tu " autem, materna in Deum auctoritate pollens, etiam iis, qui
enormiter peccant, gratiam concilias; non enim potesnonexaudiri, cum
Deus tibi, ut verse et intemeratae Matri, in omnibus morem gerat."
In
Dorm. Dcip.
s. 2.
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4 vires insuperabiles, ne clementiam tuam superet multitudo
peccatorum. Nihil tuae resistit potentiae; tuam enim gloriam Creator
existimat esse propriam." Or. de Ingr. B. V.
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Nihil tibi impossibile, cui possibile est desperates in spem beati-
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tudinis relevare." DC Nat. B. V. s. I.
Nee facultas ei deesse poterit, nee voluntas.
1
DC Aff. crga B. V. c. 14.
In Assumpt.
s. I.