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Show of Jud;i; if St. Peter could promise prom-ise to pray for his converts after Ins death; St. John saw in hia vision the 2-1 ancients offering the prayers of the saints to God. Isn't it logical then to infer that i tile Mother of Jesus also can of-j of-j f.-r mil prayers to her son? ! I r. Kit her sums up Mary's part in our salvation thus: "But scornful scorn-ful men have coldly said. Thy 1 love was leading me and yet in I (his I did but tread. The very path my Saviour trod. They know but little of thy worth, who speak , tae.su heaitless words to me. For i whom did Jesus love on earth one half so tenderly a.s thee". . HOLY ROSARY CHURCH by Father Pilleguno The Month of May Suggests: A wold to our non-catholic ft lends about Clod's mother. Catholics often speak of Mary as the "Mother of Clod". But no catholic believes that she existed from all eternity or that she is a kind of Christian goddess. She was creature who had no existunre at all bofoie her birth around 1G B. C. or thereabouts, ishc was boin tpiite naturally without any miracles. And tra-1 dition names her parents a.s Saint : J aeliim and Saint Ann. ; But it was her singular privil-; t' to be chosen by God as the Mother of Jes,us, the second person per-son of the Blessed Trinity. Now this is the way we reason logically. logic-ally. Jesus is God. But Mary is the Mother of Jesus. Therefore Maiy is the Mother of God. We know that she was a very lovable and holy person. God chose her of all the women on earth. The arch angel Gabriel called her "Full of Grace" as if that were her proper name. Mary kept faith in the sublime ministry of her son. Jesus left her to St. John and the apostles preservered in prayer with Mary, the Mother of Jesus after He left the earth. If the arch-angel Raphael was able to offer the prayers of Tobias To-bias to the Lord; if an angel could pray for Jerusalem and the cities |