the-glories-of-mary

194 GLORIES OF MARY.
saint will pray for us and aid us.* But if them
art moved to pray for us,
all the saints will en
gage to intercede for us and help us.f Sosayi
Father Segneri,J applying to Mary, as the holy
Church does, these words of Wisdom: "I alone
have compassed the circuit of heaven." As
with its motion the first sphere puts in motion
all the others, so when Mary is moved to pray
for a soul, she moves all heaven to pray with
her.
St. Bonaventure says even, that when she
commands, as being their queen, all the saints
and angels to accompany her and unite their
prayerstohers.||
So we see, finally., why the holy Church re
quires us to invoke and salute the divine mother
with the great riame of our hope: Hail our hope,
nostra The "Spes salve." impious Luther could
not endure that the holy Roman Church should
Mary, our hope;*f because, as he said, God
only and Jesus Christ as our mediator are our
hope; but that God curses those who place their
hope in any creature, as we find in Jeremias:
"Cursed be the man that trustethin man."**
Te tacente, nnllus juvabit, nullus orabit.
t Te, domina orante, omnes juvabunt et orabunt.
$ In his book, "Divoto di Maria."
| Qyrum cceli circuivi sola. Eocli. xxiv. 8.
I
Quanclo virgo sanctissima procedit ad Deum pronobis deprecaiv
dmn imporat angelis et sanctis, ut earn comitentur, et simul cam Ipsa
iltiesimum pro nobis exorent. In Spec. V. c. 3.
5 Ferre nequeo ut Maria dicatur spes et vita mea. In Post Maj.
Bvang. in Nat. Mar.
** IfljUMUctus homo qul coiifidlt in hoiaiiiG. ivlL &