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 Litany of  Loreto  (p. 322).

glorious Virgin  and  Mother  of  God,  Mary! As thy  sacred  body  after  death  was  preserved from corruption,  and  united  with  thy  sinless  soul was borne  to  heaven  by  the  angels;  obtain  for  me the  grace  that  my  life  and  death  be  holy,  so  that on the  Day  of  Judgment  I  may  arise  to  glory  everlasting.

Hail Mary,  etc.

Ejaculation (p. 135).

Preparatory Prayer  (p. 133).

HE wages  of  sin  is  death. Now, as  the  Blessed Virgin from  the  first  moment  of  her  existence was  preserved  from  all  sin,  and  even from original  sin,  it  necessarily  follows  that  death could have  no  permanent  dominion  over  her,  and that her  body  would  not  be  permitted  to  see  corruption.

2. This  sinless  body  had  been  the  medium  by which  the  body  of  Our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  who