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GLORIES OF MABY. 123
my love, and I will not let him till
go he has
blessed me, and he will not depart without me.
If I can do nothing else, at least I will hide my
self in his wounds ;
there I will remain, and out
of himself he shall not be able to find me.*
my sins,
Finally, he adds, if my Redeemer, for
drives me from his feet, I will cast myself at the
feet of his mother Mary, and, prostrate there, I
will not depart until she has obtained my pardon;
for this mother of mercy has never failed to take
pity on misery and console the wretched who
seek her aid ;
and therefore, if not from obliga
tion, at least from compassion, she will not fail
to induce her Son to pardon me.f
Look upon us, then, we will conclude with
the words of Euthymius, look upon us, then,
with thine eyes of compassion, oh our most mer
ciful mother, for we are thy servants, and in thee
we have placed all our hope.f
EXAMPLE.
It is related in the Fourth Part of the Treas
ure of the Rosary, miracle eighty-fifth,that a gen
tleman who was most devoted to the divine
* Quantumcumque me Deus praesciverat, scio quod seipsum negare
non potest. Eum amplexabor, et si mihi non benedixerit, earn non
demitiam; et sine me recedere non valebit. In cavernis vulnerum
snorum me abscondam, ibique extra ee me invenire non poterit.
t Ad matris BUSS pedes provulutus stabo, et mihi veniam impetret;
ipsa enim non misereri ignorat; et miseris non satisfacere nunquam
scivit. Ideoque ex compassione mihi ad indulgentiam Filium inclinabit.
P. 3, Stim. Div. Am. c. 13.
$ Respice, O mater misericordiosiesima, respico servos tuos, in te
nim omnem epem nostram collocavimus. Orat de Deip.