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Show MARY IMMACULATE. (By J. K. M. Raley.) Immaculate! Without a stain! How can we rightly greet thee! O, Mary, I, thy child, were fain To suffer all to meet thee; Anear thy favored lot to be God's chosen Maid of Galilee! To greet the one who when'on eartn. Through trials worse than ours. Walked "undefiled" even from her birth Till thorns were changed to flowers-Till flowers-Till Jesus came her heart to claim, And render spotless Mary's name. And now throughout each earthly place That Christians enter in. We hail our Mother, "Full of grace, Conceived without a sin." And, through her love, we all await An entrance at the heavenly gate. Sacred Heart Review. |