✠ ANNOUNCEMENTS¶ Signup for Sunday Catechism classesbegins today! The signup table is inHelfta Hall. Classes begin in two weeks.Stop in to our Gift Shop after Mass topick up that book you’ve been meaningto add to your spiritual reading list, or topurchase rosaries, scapulars, medals,holy pictures, statues, etc., for yourself orfor a gift. Layaway is available.

Vespers are chanted at 4:45 PMtoday, followed by Benediction.

¶THIS WEEK

The final week of August offers manyopportunities to hear Mass, and beginswith a Pope-Martyr, St. Zephyrinus onMonday, followed by a child-martyr,Little St. Hugh on Tuesday (also thedevotional feast of Our Lady’s SevenJoys, as the Summer Novena con-tinues). Wednesday comes a patron forpenitents and the fallen-away, great St.Augustine. We honor St. John theBaptist yet again on Thursday alongwith the Black Madonna of Poland.Friday’s Saint is the first saint of the“new world,” Rose of Lima. The weekand the month come to an endSaturday with a patron of mothers andfamilies, St. Raymond Nonnatus.

“You love St. Augustine and St. MaryMagdalene, whom much was forgiven

because they loved much. I also love them.I love their repentance and above all

their loving audacity.” – St. Thérèse of Lisieux

¶NEXT SUNDAY

First Sunday of the month, with ourregular second collection for theseminary. The blessing of religiousarticles will be available after all Masses.Vespers with Benediction at 4:45 PM.Set Your Missal: Pentecost XV, withcommemorations of St. Giles, and OurLady and All Saints. Trinity Preface.

“We have been promised something we donot yet possess. It is good for us to persevere

in longing until we receive what waspromised, and yearning is over.”

– St. Augustine

¶WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

GREGORIAN MASSES

Gregorian Masses are not to beconfused with the term GregorianChant. (A High Mass, or sung Mass, isknown as Missa Cantata.) GregorianMasses are Requiem Masses offered for30 consecutive days for a departed soul.

Because of the number of Massrequests, Gregorian Masses are difficultto maintain within a busy traditionalparish and are usually sent to themissions where they can be offered as

soon as possible. The usual stipend forthese 30 consecutive Masses is $650.00.Our mission priests gratefully receivethem and promptly begin the series.

Gregorian Masses receive theirname from St. Gregory the Great.Tradition says that once when he hadcompleted 30 consecutive Masses forthe repose of a deceased monk, thedeparted appeared to the saint inheavenly glory to thank him for theMasses that had released him fromPurgatory.

¶IN YOUR CHARITY...Please pray for all our sick, suffering,and shut-in, especially Mary Safrey, inthe hospital, Connie Kamphaus, and Sr.Jane de Chantal.

Mary Immaculate,model of purity,

pray for us

¶UPCOMING: Mark your calendar!•First Sunday Classes: Sunday,September 8th (10:40-11:20 AM).•Fatima Rosary Procession: Friday,September 13th (7:15 PM).•Parish Picnic: Sunday, September15th.

Do with me, O Lord, as You will and know to be best.

– St. Philip Neri

4900 Rialto Road, West Chester, Ohio 45069 • (513) 645-4212 • www.sgg.org • www.SGGResources.orgTraditional Latin Mass: Sundays 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM High, 11:30 AM, 5:45 PM

Most Reverend Daniel L. Dolan, PastorRev. Anthony Cekada, Rev. Charles McGuire,Rev. Vili Lehtoranta, Rev. Stephen McKenna

ST. GERTRUDE THE GREAT ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

August 25, 2013Pentecost XIVSt Louis, King, C

Traditional Latin Mass: Sundays 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM High, 11:30 AM, 5:45 PM

NOT EVEN SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLORYWAS ARRAYED AS ONE OF THESE

Lumen ChristiThe Sanctuary Lamp will burn before

the Blessed Sacrament for the nextfortnight for the following intention:

†Charles Henry Porter(Robert Porter)

✠ GOOD READING ✠ THE POETRY CORNER

TT HEHE DD ENENIn my heart is a den – a fearful place –And the names of the beasts I have to

face Are Greed and Envy and Anger and Shame, As they wildly fight for my good name.

They rise with the dawn, and their restless tread

Awakes in my bosom a sense of dread; But I walk secure from claw and tooth, When I hold my heart in the light of

truth. – Edwin Carlile Litsey

THE FABLE OF CAN AND COULDThis story won’t be new to anyone who hasread the 1890 elementary textbook,Catholic National Reader, Book Four, butsince that number of people may not bevery great in 2013, I want to share acharming, poignant story about two peoplenamed Can and Could. I took someliberties for brevity.Could held himself in great esteem, andwas always dreaming. “If I were rich, Icould…” He felt blessed with abenevolent disposition, and in hisimagination he thought of a great manyprojects for doing good on a grandscale. Can was a simple young woman,not great or so well-dressed. She wentabout her life neither sauntering norscheming far into the future. Shescarcely knew what a project was.

One day Could was riding a crowd-ed bus and the driver asked if any of thegentlemen would like to give up hisseat. A sick man wanted to ride the busand it was very cold outside. “Like!”thought Could with a laugh. “Whowould like to be outside in this cold?”And so Could stayed in his warm seatand thought of new laws he might passto improve the transit system. No oneshould have to walk sick in the cold.

On the same day Can, havingfinished her chores, entered a store tobuy something to eat. Inside there wasa child carrying a basket much tooheavy for her small frame, and theshawl that she wore was fallen from hershoulders and dragged in the muddysnow. “What happened to your shawl?”Can asked. The little girl said hermother was too ill to go to the store, soshe sent her daughter instead. The girlcould not hold up her shawl to keepwarm lest she drop the basket. “You’lldie from the cold,” said Can. Then Cantied up the shawl, helped the girl sellthe items in the basket, and walkedwith her back to her home where shemade the sick mother’s bed.

That night Could feel asleep in hisarm chair by the fire in his comfortablehome reflecting on all the acts of justicehis new laws would bring, while Cancooked a stew so she might return tocheck on the poor family the next day.The moral of the story? Of all the illsthat men endure, small is the part whichlaws and kings can cure.

– www.stacytrasancos.com, May 2013

“The Appeal of Little St. Thérèse” Not alone Catholics in every country of the world, but others, by tens and hundreds,– Protestants, free thinkers, scoffers – revere and love the girl-saint of Lisieux. No oneelse except our beloved St. Anthony is so praised, so honored, in this businesslike,hurrying century of ours. A very clever French woman, Madame Delarue-Mardrus,has written a charming book about her; secular magazines, here and in other lands,feature articles which re-tell her short story and gropingly try to interpret it.

The simplest and no doubt the truest explanation of this world-wide cult is thatGod wills it. From a purely human point of view no doubt it is helped by such detailsas these: she lived after many of us were born, and many are still living who knew or,at least, often saw her; the doll she played with, the dresses she wore on certain festiveoccasions, her pin cushion, needle book, scissors, and other simple souvenirs arepreserved at Lisieux where they are seen by thousands who, too, have played withdolls, dressed in white on gala days, and daily use pin cushions, needle books andscissors. Unquestionably her beauty attracts, and her youth – dead at the age oftwenty-four. Certain it is, as some one put it, she is the “pet” of the world today. Evenour Holy Father (Pope Pius XI – Ed. note) has special devotion to her. It was to her thathe entrusted the care of his health during the long strain and the overwork of theJubilee year of 1925; and he was able for every call upon his strength and still welland strong when 1926 opened.

– St. Anthony Messenger, ca. 1927

Collection ReportThursday, August 15th ..............................$1,536.00Sunday, August 18th .................................$3,136.00

5:45 PM LOW: Friday Night Servers

7:30 AM LOW: Simpsons8:10 AM LOW: M. Briggs

7:30 AM LOW: Brueggemann Bros.9:00 AM HIGH: CHAPLAINS: Rev. Mr.Nkamuke, T. Simpson, Jr.ACS: J. Simpson, N. McClorey TH: J. Lacy TORCH: N. & P. McClorey, C. Arlinghaus, A. Soli 11:30 AM LOW: F. & N. Puglielli4:45 PM VESPERS & BENEDICTION: G. Miller5:45 PM LOW: G. Miller

Remember St. Gertrude’s in your will!

FRI 8/30

SAT 8/31

SUN 9/1

Servers: AUGUST 26 - SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

“In the measure that grace’skingdom is extended,

sin’s power is weakened.”– St. Bernard

Our Lady of CzestochowaAccording to tradition the painting wasa portrait of Our Lady done by St. Lukesometime after the Crucifixion of OurLord, and remained in the Holy Landuntil discovered by St. Helena in thefourth century. It was taken toConstantinople, where the EmperorConstantine erected a church for its enthronement.

During the siege by the Saracens, the invaders becamefrightened when the people carried the picture in aprocession around the city; the infidels fled. The imageremained in that city for 500 years, until it became part ofsome dowries, eventually being taken to Russia to a regionthat later became Poland.

After the portrait became the possession of the Polishprince, St. Ladislaus, in the 15th century, it was installed inhis castle. Tartar invaders besieged the castle and an enemyarrow pierced Our Lady’s image, inflicting a scar. Traditionsays that St. Ladislaus determined to save the image fromrepeated invasions, so he went to his birthplace, Opala,stopping for rest in Czestochowa; the image was broughtnearby to Jasna Gora (“bright hill”) and placed in a smallwooden church named for the Assumption.

The following morning, after the picture was carefully

placed in the wagon, the horses refused to move. St.Ladislaus understood this to be a sign from Heaven that theimage should stay in Czestochowa; thus he replaced thepainting in the Church of the Assumption, August 26, 1382.The Saint wished to have the holiest of men guard thepainting, so he assigned the church and the monastery to thePauline Fathers.

Our Lady’s image was next imperiled by the Hussites,followers of the heretic priest, John Hus from Prague. Theysuccessfully stormed the Pauline monastery in 1430,plundering the sanctuary. Among the items stolen was theimage. After putting it in their wagon, the Hussites went alittle ways but then the horses refused to go any further.Recalling the former incident that was so similar, theheretics threw the portrait down to the ground. One of theplunderers drew his sword and slashed the image twice,causing two deep gashes; while attempting a third gash, hewas overcome with a writhing agony and died.

The two slashes on the cheek of the Blessed Virgin,together with the one on the throat, have always reappearedafter artistic attempts to fix them. The portrait again faceddanger in 1655 by a Swedish horde of 12,000, whichconfronted the 300 men guarding the image. The band of300 routed the 12,000 and the following year, the HolyVirgin was acclaimed Queen of Poland.

– catholictradition.org

I write this on a rainy feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Milwaukee, remembering thebeautiful feast of the Assumption in West Chester just one week ago. Heaven did indeed favor uswith a fine day for this great Summer feast, with its blessing, procession and Pontifical Mass.

I am especially grateful for the good turn out of children, servers of all ages, and Mrs. Lotarski’sSummer Volunteer choir. (Alternating with our other volunteer choir this Summer, the SimpsonEnsemble, they have assured beautiful sung Masses for the different feasts and observances. Whata wonderful spirit of devotion, and what wonderful singing!)

Our Murillo Assumption painting received some much-needed restoration, and was in its customary place inthe sanctuary, above Mary’s tomb, where the angels deposited the flowers. Meanwhile, the Bischels brought basketsof garden vegetables to be blessed, which they shared with others after Mass. Keep your sacramentals, at home orin the car, and use them devoutly – that is, unless you’ve already eaten them. That’s good, too!

As I read the Matins of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (the crucial devotion for our day) I could not help butthink how different the 20th century would have been, had Pius XI or the XII heeded Our Lady’s request for theConsecration of Russia to her Heart. Way too late now, of course, for the punishment has already arrived. Still, it isnever too late to have recourse to her Heart, the Throne of Grace, for all of our pressing needs in these difficult days.In the end, her Heart will triumph!

These final days of August are unusually quiet ones at church, although the preparations of the new school yearare begun in earnest, and the work continues inside and out, as does the great work of the daily Sacrifice at the altar,and daily prayer in church.

Workers are always welcome!St. Joseph bless and inspire you.

– Bishop Dolan

✠ THE BISHOP’S CORNER ✠

✠ THE INFORMED CATHOLIC ✠Why government “don’t work” –except for legislators who make biglaws, and big bucks.

Corruption is currency ofour capital

NEW YORK – The hottest politicalbook of the summer, “This Town” byMark Leibovich, is being read inWashington with equal partsembarrassment and delight. It is avivid, detailed picture of the country’sruling elite, filled with tales of ruthlessnetworking, fake friendships and asensationalist media. But beneath thejuicy anecdotes is a depressing messageabout corruption and dysfunction.

If you are trying to understandwhy Washington works so badly forthe rest of the country, the book saysthat it works extremely well for itsmost important citizens: the lobbyists.The government of the United Statesis no longer defined by party or abranch but by a profession comfortablyencamped around the federal coffers.The result is that Washington hasbecome the wealthiest city in thenation, and its relative position hasactually improved over the past fiveyears, during the worst recession in 75years. The country might bestruggling, but K Street is not.

Leibovich describes a city in whichmoney has trumped power as theultimate currency. Lobbyists todayhold the keys to what everyone ingovernment – senator or staffer – issecretly searching for: a post-government source of income. He citesan Atlantic magazine report that saysthat in 1974, only 3 percent of retiringmembers of Congress becamelobbyists; today, that number is 42percent for members of the House and50 percent for senators.

The result is bad legislation. Lookat any bill today: They are gargantuan

documents filled with giveaways. Theact that created the Federal Reserve in1913 was only 31 pages. The 1933Glass-Steagall legislation thatregulated banking was 37 pages. Thecurrent version of that law, the 2010Dodd-Frank bill, is 849 pages, withthousands of pages of additional rules.The Affordable Care Act runs morethan 2,000 pages. Bills have become sovast because they are qualified byprovisions, exceptions and exemptionsput in by the very industry beingtargeted – a process that academics call“regulatory capture.”

In the mid-1950s, there were5,000 registered lobbyists inWashington. Today, there are 12,000 –and, by several counts, many, manymore, because thousands havereclassified themselves as “consultants”and “strategic advisers.” The moneythey spend – as much as $3.5 billionannually in recent years – soundssubstantial but is trivial compared withwhat they are able to divert from thegovernment’s $3.5 trillion budget.

The mistake Leibovich makes inhis telling of Washington tales is toimply that today’s Washingtonians areparticularly greedy or venal. I doubtthey differ much from earliergenerations of power brokers. But thesystem in which they operate haschanged, creating much greaterincentives for venality.

Consider just one factor (and thereare many): the role of money, whichhas expanded dramatically over thepast four decades. Harvard's LawrenceLessig has pointed out that membersof Congress spend three of every fiveworkdays raising money. They alsovote with extreme attention to theirdonors’ interests. Lessig cites studiesdemonstrating that donors get a bigbang for their campaign bucks –sometimes with returns on their“investment” that would make aventure capital firm proud. A company

would be crazy not to make suchinvestments.

Compared with otherdemocracies, the United States hasbecome not just an outlier butpractically another planet. The totalcost of the 2010 national elections inBritain – the mother of parliamentarygovernment – was $86 million. Thecost of the 2012 U.S. elections hasbeen estimated to be nearly 75 timesthat number, at $6.3 billion.

Taking money out of politics is amammoth challenge. Perhaps the bestthat one could hope for would be tolimit instead what Congress can sell.In other words, enact a thoroughreform of the tax code, ridding it of thethousands of special exemptions,credits and deductions that areinstitutionalized, legalized corruption.

The most depressing aspect of thebook is how utterly routine all of theinfluence-peddling has become.

In 1988, Ramsay MacMullen, adistinguished Yale historian of Rome,published a book that took on one ofthe central questions of his field: Whydid the greatest empire in the historyof the world collapse in the 5thcentury? The root cause, he explained,was political corruption, which hadbecome systemic in the late RomanEmpire.

What was once immoral becameaccepted as standard practice, andwhat was once illegal was celebrated asthe new normal.

Many decades from now, ahistorian looking at where Americalost its way could use “This Town” as aprimary source.

– Fareed ZakariaWashington Post Columnist

(The Enquirer, 8/6/2013)

✠ THE CALENDAR ✠ ST ANTHONY’S CORNER

All Sunday Masses and most weekday Masses are webcastPlease check our website!

MON 8/26/13 ST ZEPHYRINUS, PM8:00 AM Low Mass Holy Souls in Purgatory (Jeff Kamphaus)9:00 AM Low Mass Prayers answered-Family (Linda Maki)

TUE 8/27/13 ST JOSEPH CALASANCTIUS, CSEVEN JOYS OF OUR LADY

LITTLE ST HUGH OF LINCOLN, M7:00 AM Low Mass †Mr. & Mrs. K. Ahern and their family

(Arlinghaus family)8:00 AM Low Mass †Robert K. Duff (Duff family) Summer

Novena5:00 PM Low Mass Bishop Dolan’s Special Intention for

Deceased (Patsy McConnell family) Summer Novena

WED 8/28/13 ST AUGUSTINE, BPCDST HERMES, M

7:00 AM Low Mass Poor Souls-gratitude (DJR)8:00 AM Low Mass Bishop Dolan’s continuing good health

(Rebecca Stump)5:00 PM Low Mass †Betty Csatary (Marge Kitchen)

THU 8/29/13 BEHEADING OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

ST SABINA, MOUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA

7:00 AM Low Mass Poor Souls-gratitude-Reparation to theHoly Ghost (DJR)

8:00 AM Low Mass Poor Souls-gratitude-Bishop Dolan andpriests (DJR)

5:00 PM Low Mass Bishop Dolan’s Intentions

FRI 8/30/13 ST ROSE OF LIMA, VSS FELIX & ADAUCTUS, MM

7:00 AM Low Mass Poor Souls-gratitude-All priests (DJR)8:00 AM Low Mass Poor Souls-gratitude-Jean Ventrano (DJR)5:15 PM Confessions & Rosary5:45 PM Low Mass Holy Souls in Purgatory (Patrick Omlor)6:30 PM Sacred Heart Novena & Benediction

SAT 8/31/13 ST RAYMOND NONNATUS, CST AIDAN, BPC

7:15 AM Confessions7:30 AM Low Mass Poor Souls-gratitude-Les Pomerville (DJR)8:10 AM Sermon, Low Mass Poor Souls-gratitude-Rosary

Chain intentions (DJR)

SUN 9/1/13 PENTECOST XVST GILES, AB

TWELVE HOLY BROTHERS, MM

7:05 AM Rosary7:30 AM Low Mass Our family and friends (The Wilkers)

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THE SUMMER NOVENA : WEEK 11Meditation for St. Anthony’s Tuesday: Help the poor.

The poor are God’s beloved. “Anything you dofor the least of these, you do also to me,” saidthe Savior.

The poor are the living image of JesusChrist. The rich may go to heaven by sharingtheir wealth with the needy. Give to everyonewho asks in the name of charity. Do good,hoping for nothing in return, and your reward

shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Most High. St. Anthony carried out the orders of our Lord in a

splendid way. He obtained for his devoted admirers bothmaterial goods and spiritual blessings.

(Here make your request.)Prayer: Glorious St. Anthony, inspire the hearts of the richthat they may, with generous hands, help the poor in theirnecessities, and through this charity obtain for us the gracethat we may all one day see Him, who for us made Himselfpoor in this world. Amen.

St. Anthony, protected by Mary, avert the dangers whichthreaten our body and our soul.

– from St. Bonaventure’s prayers on the 13 petitions of the Miraculous Responsory of St. Anthony

The above meditation and prayers may be included as private devotions inconnection with the Summer Novena for Tuesday, August 27th. TheNovena (to Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St. Anthony) will be prayedpublicly following the 8 AM and 5 PM Masses.

Prayer at the ElevationHail, Victim of Salvation! Eternal King! IncarnateWord! sacrificed for me and all mankind! Hail,precious Blood of the Son of God! Hail, sacred Flesh,torn with nails, pierced with a lance, and bleeding ona cross for us, poor sinners! O amazing goodness! Oinfinite love! O let that tender love plead now in mybehalf; let all my iniquities be here effaced, and myname be written in the Book of Life. Hail, sacredBlood, flowing from the wounds of Jesus Christ, andwashing away the sins of the world! O cleanse,sanctify, and preserve my soul, that nothing in futuremay ever separate me from Thee.

9:00 AM High Mass St. Thomas Aquinas-answeredprayer (Rebecca Hinton)

11:05 AM Rosary11:30 AM Low Mass Rebecca Uhlenbrock (Capetillo

family)5:45 PM Low Mass For the people of St. Gertrude the

Great

Words of Our LadyMy daughter, I wish to tell thee for thy comfort and thecomfort of my servants that thou hast written of thesemysteries in these chapters to my great satisfaction and withthe approbation of the Most High. He wishes the world toknow what I have done for the Church in coming back fromthe empyrean heaven to assist the faithful, and how much Idesire to help the Catholics who seek my aid in accordancewith the commands of God and my own maternal affection.The Saints also, and among them my son John, wereparticularly rejoiced that thou hast made mention of theirjubilee at seeing me ascend with my Son and Lord, for it istime that the children of the Church should know this andunderstand more fully the blessings to which theOmnipotent has raised me. They are thereby to enliven theirhope and make themselves more capable of the favors I canand will bestow upon them. Let them know that I, as aloving Mother, am filled with pity at seeing them sodeceived and oppressed by the tyranny of the demon, towhom they have blindly fallen victims. John my servanthas concealed many other sacraments in the twenty-firstand the twelfth chapters of the Apocalypse concerning thefavors shown to me by the Almighty; in the course of thishistory thou hast revealed those which the faithful canprofitably know at present, and thou shalt reveal still more.

– Our Lady to Ven. Mary of Agreda“Mystical City of God”

“Mary is more Mother than Queen” That Mary is a Queen, the Queen of heaven, St. Thérèsewell knew, just as she knew that Christ is King. God choseMary to be the Mother of His Son, and from that firstprivilege of her Divine Maternity, all Mary's other privilegesflow. Immaculate in her orgin, Queen in her triumph, Maryis above all Mother. Having assumed, with the heavenlyFather, the function of begetting the Incarnate Son, sheassumed with this Son, the office of begetting all Hisadopted children. Such is the theological truth on which theLittle Flower’s Marian message is based: Mary is moreMother than Queen.

Thérèse was not a daughter of Mary merely because ofher Carmelite vocation. On the contrary, a study of the lifeof St. Thérèse will disclose that Mary was associated withevery step of St. Therese throughout her life; we shall seeMary throughout the Little Flower's childhood, throughouther adolescence, throughout her Carmelite life andespecially on her death-bed.

As a mere child Thérèse sensed, as she later expressed it,that “the most beautiful masterpiece of the heart of God is

the heart of a mother”; and she understood that amongst allmaternal hearts, the most loving must be that of the Motherof Jesus. So at the age of three, she asked her sister Paulineevery night: “Is the good God pleased with me? Is OurBlessed Mother pleased with me?” Even as an infant, sheassociated the Divine paternity and the Marian maternity,and thus with the simplicity of a wise child she desired toplease both God, her Father, and Mary, her Mother. We aretold that early in life Therese grew to love the text: “Can awoman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the childof her womb?” (Is. 49,15). When she was seven, she wrote,in one of her school blank books, this naive resolution: “Iwish to be Mary’s good little daughter. Mary is my dearMother, and usually daughters resemble their mother.”Consequently she determined to resemble Mary.

In describing her first confession, she says in herAutobiography: “I remember well how the priest exhortedme above all to a tender devotion towards Our Lady, and Ipromised to redouble my love for her who already filled solarge a place in my heart.”

When she was ten, Therese was seized with a strangeillness which defied medical diagnosis. She seemed to bedying. But in her extremity she looked fixedly upon thestatue of Mary at her bedside, begging Mary's assistance.The statue became animated, smiling upon Thérèse, andshe was instantaneously cured. Therese was delivered fromher illness by Mary's maternal smile.

That maternal smile was to accompany the LittleFlower throughout her adolescence. At her firstCommunion, Therese was chosen to pronounce the Act ofConsecration to Mary in the name of all the firstcommunicants and it was then that she gave herself onceagain to Mary. She writes: “I put my whole heart into thereading of the prayer, and besought Our Blessed Motheralways to watch over me. It seemed to me that she lookeddown lovingly, and once more smiled upon her LittleFlower.”

Three years later, at the age ofthirteen, on the occasion of herpilgrimage to the Shrine of OurLady of Victories in Paris, Theresetells us that she received a new andsecret assurance of the reality of theMiracle of the Smile and a freshrevelation of the maternity of Maryin her regard. “I felt,” she writes,“that Our Blessed Mother watched over me, that I was somuch her child, that I should give her the name of ‘Mama’,for she seemed to me to be more tender than any earthlymother.”

✠ MY QUEEN, MY MOTHER ✠