Every day at beginning of dawn; She prostrated Herself in the presence of the Most High and gave Him thanks and praise for His immutable Being, His infinite perfections, and for having created Her out of nothing; acknowledging Herself as His creature and the work of His hands. She blessed Him and adored Him, giving Him honor, magnificence and Divinity, as the supreme Lord and Creator of Herself and of all that exists.
She raised up Her spirit to place it into His hands, offering Herself with profound humility and resignation to Him and asking Him to dispose of Her according to His will during that day and during all the days of Her life, and to teach Her to fulfill whatever would be to His greater pleasure.
This she repeated many times during the external works of the day, and in the internal ones, She first consulted His Majesty, asking His advice, permission and benediction for all of Her actions.
"Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, send now Your Holy Spirit over the earth. Let the Holy Spirit live in the hearts of all Nations, that they may be preserved from degeneration, disaster and war. May the Lady of All Nations, who once was Mary, be our Advocate! Amen"
She was a living image of Christ our Redeemer and Master. Immediately the Mistress of holy humility prostrated Herself to the ground and abasing Herself to the dust, said:
"Most high God and my Lord, behold this vile worm of the earth, acknowledging itself formed from it (Gen. 2, 7), and coming from nothingness to this existence, which I hold through thy most liberal clemency. I acknowledge also, O highest Father, that Thy ineffable condescension, without any merits of mine, has raised me from the dust, to the dignity of being the Mother of Thy Onlybegotten. From my whole heart I praise and exalt Thy immense goodness in so favoring me. In gratitude for such great blessings I offer myself to live and labor anew in this mortal life, according to all the decrees of Thy divine will. I consecrate myself as Thy faithful servant and as the servant of the children of the Church. All of them I present before Thy immense charity and implore Thee from my inmost heart to look upon them as their kindest God and Father. For them I offer up the sacrifice of being deprived of Thy glory and peace, and of having chosen of my own free will suffering rather than joy, denying myself the vision of Thee in order to perform what is so pleasing in Thy sight."
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She continued to offer special prayers for them, so that all of them were written in the book of life. In order to bind her divine Son She said to Him:
"My Lord and life of my soul! According to Thy will and pleasure have I returned to the world in order to be the Mother of Thy children, my brethren and the faithful sons of the Church. Let not my heart be torn by seeing the fruit of Thy priceless blood fail in anyone of these that seek my intercession; and let them not reap unhappiness from their having availed themselves of me, the insignificant worm of the earth, for obtaining Thy clemency. Admit them, my Son, into the number of Thy friends, predestined for Thy glory."
To these Her prayers the Lord immediately responded, promising that what She asked would be done. And I believe the same happens in our day to all those that merit Her intercession and ask for it with all their hearts; for if this purest Mother comes to Her Son with similar petitions, how can it be imagined, that He shall deny to Her that little, to whom He has given His own Self, in order that She might clothe it in human flesh and nature, and then nurse Him at Her own virginal breast?
But let us all remember, that in the heavenly knowledge and charity of this most loving Mother we were all present to Her, also during those times (Vol. III., 78); for She saw and knew us all in the order and succession in which we were to be born in the Church; and She prayed and interceded for us no less than for those who lived in her times. Nor is She at present less powerful in heaven, than She was then upon earth; nor less our Mother, than of those first children; and She held us as her own, just as well as them. But alas! that our faith and our fervor and devotion should be so very different! Not She has changed, nor is her love less ardent, nor would we experience less of her intercession and protection, if in these troubled times we would hasten to Her with the same sentiments of humility and fervor, asking for Her prayers and trustfully relying upon Her for help, as was the case with those devoted Christians in the first beginning. Without a doubt the whole Catholic Church would then immediately experience the same assistance of the Queen throughout the whole world.
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