Prayers & Reflections for March 20

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

CHAPTER IX
The Blessed Mother

Mary's purity is not a holier-than-thou purity, a stand-offish holiness which gathers up its robes lest they be stained by the sinful; nor is it a despising purity which looks down upon the impure.

Rather it is a radiating purity which is no more spoiled by solicitude for the fallen than a ray of sunshine is sullied by a dirty window pane through which it pours.

[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