thy merits and thy exaltation to this sublime dignity, a meek and pure heart, and a happy departure from this life, under thy maternal care and powerful protection. Amen. Hail Mary.
III.
JESUS CHRIST IS BORN OF MARY AT BETHLEHEM.
THRICE happy Virgin! suffer thy servant to congratulate thee for the ineffable joy with which thy sacred heart was replenished, when the Son of God was born of thee in a stable at Bethlehem. I rejoice in thy happiness, O blessed Mother! Look thou on me in this moment, and obtain for me, of thy divine Son, through thy merits and this sublime favor of heaven, a meek and pure heart, and a happy departure from this life, under thy maternal care and powerful protection. Amen. Hail Mary.
IV.
THE MAGI COME TO ADORE THE NEW-BORN KING.
THRICE happy Virgin! suffer thy servant to congratulate thee for the ineffable joy with which thy sacred heart was replenished, when the Magi from the east arrived at the stable of Bethlehem. They prostrate themselves before thy divine Son, O blessed Mother! and by the offerings they make and the homage they pay, acknowledge him as King, God and Man. I rejoice in thy happiness. Look thou on me in this moment, and obtain for me, of thy divine Son, through thy merits, and by the joy thou receivedst on this occasion, a meek and pure heart, and a happy departure from this life, under thy maternal care and powerful protection. Amen. Hail Mary.
