91 praise of the virgin mary, mother of god Daughter of God became the Mother of God, the Spouse of the Holy Spirit, the receptacle of the entire Holy Trinity. O happy Virgin, adorned with so many titles, showered with so many goods and gifts! And so the Daughter of God gives birth, and she bears the Son of God. From a creature is born the Creator; the Father is born of the Daughter, but not in a human manner, not as it is among people. For without a human father is born the Son, and without husband the Daughter of God becomes a mother. Yet He was true man, who was born, such that He came to the earth to save mankind, and He did not desire to save them in any other way except by becoming man. How many mysteries are hidden within Christmas, how much joy, although by God’s Will the greatest joy was penetrated by immense sadness. The shepherds greeted the newborn as God, the cold touched him as a man. There was not a place for Him in the inn, as if He were the most wicked of men. The foreign kings came to give Him homage; His own plotted to kill Him. All this happened so that the courage of the Virgin’s spirit might even more shine forth in adversities. Thus, she had to flee to Egypt with Him, to whom belongs all the earth and Heaven. And for you, dear members, from here is such a teaching that you flee the dangers threatening your souls. Truly, why remain in Egypt? I leave Egypt and return to Judah. Will I be able to see there, how the holy Mother raised her most holy Son, how she taught Him, forms Him, how she sought Him lost in the Temple, how she admires the way He shows her obedience, how she interrogates Him and is astonished when He is teaching, how she venerates Him when in Cana of Galilee He performs the miracle, how she accompanies Him hastening to His Passion, because — dear members — it came to all this. And because I consider that nowhere else but precisely at the Passion and death of the Son the Virgin Mother of God merited most of all, for that reason I will delay on this matter a little longer. First, I have to say one thing: truly, many other virtues of the Most Blessed Virgin appeared in a visible manner on other occasions, however in the terrible time of the Passion of her Son, her
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