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28th day of "Month of Mary", prayer book by Bl. Francisco Palau OCD. I. The violet is a flower that even if it does not bloom in May, it anticipates to give us the news that frost had passed, the snow …More
28th day of "Month of Mary", prayer book by Bl. Francisco Palau OCD.
I. The violet is a flower that even if it does not bloom in May, it anticipates to give us the news that frost had passed, the snow had melted and that the beautiful season of spring is approaching. II. Modesty 2. This virtue -- modesty -- a companion of temperance, maintained in the spirit its interior serenity and in the body the exterior against its tendency towards honours, glories, dignities, greatness, knowledge, exterior adornment of the body, gestures and attitudes in licit enjoyments The violet hides its flowers among the leaves: Modesty covers with its external acts whatever it feels and has of greatness, and presents itself to the eyes of others as a small flower, but very fragrant, and is the first that announces to us the good time and the delight that the modest and well ordered man in all his interior impulses and exterior gestures, will enjoy in paradise. III. The modesty in Mary 3. Mary never experienced …More