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THE birth of the Blessed Virgin
Mary announced joy and the near approach of salvation to the lost world;
therefore is this festival celebrated by the church with praise and
thanksgiving. It was a mystery of sanctity, and distinguished by singular
privileges. Mary was brought forth into the world, not like other children
of Adam, infected with the loathsome contagion of sin, but pure, holy,
beautiful, and glorious, adorned with all the most precious graces which
became her who was chosen to be the Mother of God. She appeared indeed in
the weak state of our mortality; but in the eyes of heaven she already
transcended the highest seraph in purity, brightness, and the richest
ornaments of grace.
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