Tag: Daughter Zion
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Arise, My Beloved, and Come
THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY My lover speaks; he says to me, Arise, my beloved,my beautiful one, and come! For see, the winter is past,the rains are over and gone.Songs 2, 10-11 “Behold, from henceforth, all generations shall call me blessed;for the Almighty has done great things for me,and holy is his name.”Luke…
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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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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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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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My Spirit Rejoices in God My Savior
Daughter Zion 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 magnifies…
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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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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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That the Mother of My Lord should Come to Me?
New Ark of the Covenant And David was afraid of the Lord that day,saying: How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?2 Samuel 6, 9 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?For behold as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in my…
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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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The Power of the Highest Shall Overshadow Thee
SPOUSE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT And I passed by thee, and saw thee:and behold thy time was the time of lovers:and I spread my garment over thee,and covered thy ignominy. And I swore to thee,and I entered into a covenant with thee,saith the Lord God: and thou becamest mine.Ezekiel 16, 8 And in the sixth…
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