Prayers & Reflections for March 17

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

CHAPTER IX
The Blessed Mother

...When a mother makes such an appeal to her son she is merely re-echoing the lesson of the Saviour, who, in giving His Mother to us as our Mother, equivalently said: "My children, never do anything of which your Mother would be ashamed."

Let a soul but love that Mother and he will love her Divine Son Jesus Who, in order to make satisfaction for the unlawful pleasure of the flesh, surrendered to us His last and lawful attachment - His Mother.

[Continued tomorrow]
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From:
The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
(C) 1943, P.J. Kenedy & Sons