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notifications. Today we will be meditating upon and praying with the fourth

joyful mystery, the presentation of Jesus in the temple with help from St. Alphonse's

Lagori and one of his writings from his work, the glories of Mary. And the point of emphasis

for our meditation will be Mary's fiat is renewed. So we've already had a chance to be introduced to our author, St. Alfonso's Lurie.

So let's get straight into the reading.

The Eternal Father had already determined to save man who was lost through sin and free him from eternal death.

But because he wished that at the same time his divine justice should not be defrauded

of a full and due satisfaction, he did not spare the life of his own son, already made

man in order to redeem man, but he required that he should pay to its most rigorous

extent the penalty merited by men.

He that spared not even his own son, says the apostle, but delivered him up for us all.

He sent him, therefore, on the earth to become man destined for him a mother and chose the Virgin Mary.

But as he did not wish his divine word to become her son before she accepted him by her express consent, so he did not wish that Jesus should sacrifice

his life for the salvation of men without the concurrence of the consent of Mary, that together with the sacrifice of the

life of the son, the heart of the mother might be sacrificed also.

St. Thomas teaches that the relation of mother gives in a special right over her children.

Hence, Jesus being innocent in himself and not deserving any

punishment for his own sins, it seemed fitting that he should not be destined to the cross

as the victim for the sins of the world without the consent of his mother, by which she

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