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.And then were pouredinto her from God certain most beautiful prayers concerning the life and passion andpraise of Christ and concerning the life, compassion, and praise of the most Blessed VirginMary.Afterward she so kept them in memory that every day she would read them devoutly.Wherefore the Blessed Virgin Mary, on a later occasion appearing to her at prayer, said: ”Imerited for you those prayers.Therefore, when you read them devoutly, you shall bevisited with the consolation of my Son.”In this prayer revealed by God to blessed Bridget, the glorious Virgin Mary is devoutly andbeautifully praised for her holy conception and infancy, for all her virtuous acts and labors, for the great sorrows of her whole life, for her most holy death and assumption, etc.Prayer 1Blessed and revered may you be, my Lady, O Virgin Mary, most holy Mother of God.You are, in truth, his best creation; and no one has ever loved him so intimately as you, Oglorious Lady.Glory be to you, my Lady, O Virgin Mary, Mother of God.That same angelby whom Christ was announced to you announced you yourself to your own father andmother; and of their honest wedlock you were conceived and begotten.Blessed may you be, my Lady, O Virgin Mary.In your most holy infancy, immediatelyafter your weaning, you were borne by your parents to the temple of God and were, withother virgins, entrusted to the keeping of the devout high priest.Praise be to you, my Lady, O Virgin Mary.When you reached that age at which youunderstood that God was your Creator, you forthwith began to love him intimately above al things.Then too you most discreetly ordered your time, both day and night, by means ofvarious offices and exercises in honor of God.Your sleep, too, and the food for yourglorious body were so temperately regulated by you that you were always fit for God'sservice.Infinite glory be to you, my Lady, O Virgin Mary, who humbly vowed your virginity toGod himself and therefore had no concern about who would betroth you, for you knew thathe to whom you had first given your faith was more mighty and more good than all otherscombined.Blessed may you be, my Lady, O Virgin Mary.You were alone and ablaze with ardentlove for God and - all your mind and al the strength of your powers being lifted up - youwere, with ardor and diligence, contemplating the most high God to whom you had offeredyour virginity, when the angel was sent to you from God and, in greeting you, announcedto you God's will.To him you replied most humbly, professing yourself God's handmaid;and then and there the Holy Spirit wonderful y filled you with al power and virtue.To you,God the Father sent his coeternal and coequal Son, who came into you then and, of yourflesh and blood, took for himself a human body.Thus, at that blessed hour, the Son of Godbecame, in you, your son, alive in his every limb and without loss of his divine majesty.Blessed may you be, my Lady, O Virgin Mary.Of your own blessed body, the body ofChrist had now been created; and in your womb, you felt his body ever growing andmoving even to the time of his glorious nativity.Before anyone else, you yourself touchedhim with your holy hands; you wrapped him in cloths; and, in accord with the prophet'soracle, you laid him in a manger.With exultant joy, in motherly fashion, you used the mostsacred milk of your breasts to nurture him.Glory be to you, O my Lady, O Virgin Mary.While still dwelling in a contemptiblehouse, i.e., the stable, you saw mighty kings coming to your Son from afar and humblyoffering to him, with the greatest reverence, their royal guest-gifts.Afterward, with yourown precious hands, you presented him in the temple; and, in your blessed heart, youdiligently preserved al that you heard from him or saw during his infancy.Blessed may you be, my Lady, O Virgin Mary.With your most holy offspring, you fledinto Egypt; and afterward, in joy, you bore him back to Nazareth.During his physicalgrowth, you saw him, your Son, humble and obedient to yourself and to Joseph.Blessedmay you be, O Lady Virgin Mary [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]