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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ... faithful clients, and in particular those who strive to propagate devotion to her, she says--"They that work by me shall not sin. They that explain me shall have life everlasting." The Lord Himself unites with the Queen of Heaven, when He says, in the Apocalypse--" He that shall overcome, I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God."t Now that city of God is none other than the most pure Virgin Mary.." Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God."J Ecclus. xxiv. 30, 31. + Apoc. iii. 12. $ Fsalm lxxxvi. 3. Practice.--" He that lives without rule lives without reason," said one of the ancients; "He that lives according to rule lives according to God," adds St. Gregory of Nyssa. Lay down a plan of life for yourself, then, which will leave none of your actions to caprice and the indecision of the moment. By this means you shall avoid idleness, with its countless train of faults, and shall amass for yourself a treasure of merits for Heaven. If subject to a rule observe it faithfully; bless God for furnishing you so excellent means of perfection, and remember that the holiness of the Saints was the fruit of their fidelity to the rule they had embraced. Aspiration.--Open to us, O open to us, holy Virgin, the Heart of Jesus--that Heaven of which you hold the keys--Aperi nobis, O Virgo! ccelum cujus claves habes. Crample. The Blessed Virgin has invariably watched over her servants at that decisive period when they must enter the world and choose a state of life, because on this choice, on this moment, depends nearly always the after career and even the eternal welfare. Tancred, favourite of the Emperor Frederic II., is a convincing proof of this. This young nobleman, calling to m...