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Rejoice Heartily, O Daughter of Zion

Daughter Zion Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel!Rejoice and exult with all your heart,O daughter of Jerusalem!The Lord has taken away the judgments against you;he has cleared away your enemies.The King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst;you shall never again fear evil.On that day, it shall be said to Jerusalem:“Fear…
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Blessed Are You Who Believed

Mother of the Church Already you knew my soul;my body held no secret from youwhen I was being fashioned in secretand molded in the depths of the earth.Your eyes saw all my actions;they were all of them written in your book;every one of my days was decreedbefore one of them came into being.Psalm 139, 14-16…
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Behold Thy Mother

MOTHER OF THE CHURCH And thou shalt say in thy heart:Who hath begotten these?I was barren and brought not forth,led away, and captive:and who hath brought up these?I was destitute and alone:and these, where were they?Isaiah 49, 21 GIVE praise, O thou barren, that bearest not:sing forth praise, and make a joyful noise,thou that didst…
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The Disciple Took Her to His Own

MOTHER OF THE CHURCH Who has heard of such a thing?Who has seen such things?Shall a land be born in one day?Shall a nation be delivered in one moment?Yet as soon as Zion was in laborshe delivered her children.Isaiah 66, 8 The child’s mother said,“As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives,I will not…
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I Will Put Enmity Between Thee and the Woman

The Immaculate Conception I will put enmities between thee and the woman,and thy seed and her seed:she shall crush thy head,and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.Genesis 3, 15 (DRB) The Protoevangelium, often referred to as the First Gospel, is found in the Book of Genesis and is recognized as the earliest recorded…
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They Have No Wine

mediatrix of grace In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen…the mountains shall drip sweet wine,and all the hills will flow with it.Amos 9, 11, 13 And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine…and all the stream beds of Judah shall flow with water;and a fountain shall…
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Most Blessed Are You among Women

The Immaculate Conception I will put enmities between thee and the woman,and thy seed and her seed:she shall crush thy head,and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.Genesis 3, 15 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting,the infant leaped in her womb,and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit,cried out in a loud voice and said,“Most blessed…
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My Soul Glorifies the Lord

The Immaculate Conception I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,and my soul shall be joyful in my God:for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation:and with the robe of justice he hath covered me,as a bridegroom decked with a crown,and as a bride adorned with her jewels.Isaiah 61, 10 And Mary said,“My soul…
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And Thy Own Soul a Sword Shall Pierce

Co-Redemptrix Now, why art thou drawn together with grief?Hast thou no king in thee,or is thy counsellor perished,because sorrow hath taken theeas a woman in labour.Micah 4, 9 And Simeon blessed them,and said to Mary his mother:Behold this child is set for the fall,and for the resurrection of many in Israel,and for a sign which…
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The Time Came for Their Purification

THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION “Consecrate to me every firstborn male.The first offspring of every womb among the Israelitesbelongs to me, whether human or animal.”Exodus 13, 2 And when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they broughthim up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in…
