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 fidelity in the service of God, in laboring for your own sanctification, and the salvation of souls.

"True devotion," as we read in "The Little Book of Our Lady," "comes from God and leads to God. The fundamental rule in regard to the homage which we offer to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the saints is, that it must ultimately be referred to God and our eternal salvation. Our devotion to the Blessed Virgin would be of no avail if it did not tend toward our union with God, toward possessing Him eternally.

"True devotion extends itself to the saints without being separated from the eternal Source of all sanctity. 'For other foundation no man can lay, but that which is laid; which is Christ Jesus' (i Cor, iii. 11). Let Him be the foundation of our devotion to His holy Mother.

"We are not able to honor our blessed Lady adequately, since, through her, Jesus has come to us. Oh, how great, how sublime was Mary's vocation! God predestined her before all ages to be the Mother of the Saviour ,of the world. And having called her to fill this most glorious office He would not have her be a mere channel of grace, but an instrument co-operating, both by her excellent qualities and by her own free will, in the great work of our Redemption.

"For thousands of years the world had been expecting the promised Messias. The