the-glories-of-mary

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GLORIES OP MAEY.
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sidered at the present day the common opinion of
doctors and divines, as the author of "The king
dom of Mary"
has already called it It is embrac
ed by Vega, Mendoza, Paciucchelli, Segneri,.
Poire, Crasset, and innumerable other learned r authors.
Even Father Noel Alexander, an author
usually very reserved in his assertions, declares it
to be the will of God that we receive all favore
through the intercession of Mary.* In confirma
tion of this, he quotes the celebrated passage of
St. Bernard: This is the will of him who would
have us receive all things through Mary.f The
same opinion is held by Father Contensone who,
explaining the words of Jesus Christ of the
cross to John, behold thy mother,
"Ecce mater
tua," says: It is as if he said, no one shall par
take of my blood except by the intercession of
my mother. My wounds are fountains of grace,
but to none can their streams be conveyed ex
cept by the channel of Mary.; Oh John, my ..dis
ciple, even as thou lovest
*
my* mother, so shalt
thou be loved by me.J
The statement that whatsoever > we Deceive
from the Lord comes to us by meanC~plFMaryi
does not find favor with a certain mod ; ernfaa-
* Qui yult ut omnia bona ab ipso expectemus, potentissima Vir
ginia matris intercessione impetranda, cum earn, ut par est, invocaxnus.
Epist. 76, in calce torn. 4, Moral.
t Sic est voluntas ejus, qui totum noa babere voluit per Mariam.
J Quasi diceret, Nullus sanguinis mei particeps erit, nisi intercea,
ione matris mese. Vulnera gratiarum fontes sunt, sed ad nullos delivabuntur
rivi, nisi per Maria canalem. Joannes diacipule, tantum
ft me amaberis, quantum earn amaverig. Theol. mentis, et oovd.
torn. *,!. 10, D. 4,c.l.