Litany of Loreto (p. 322).
Prayer
O glorious Virgin and Mother of God, Mary! As thy sacred body after death was preserved from corruption, and united with thy sinless soul was borne to heaven by the angels; obtain for me the grace that my life and death be holy, so that on the Day of Judgment I may arise to glory everlasting.
Hail Mary, etc.
Ejaculation (p. 135).
FOURTH DAY
Reasons for the Bodily Assumption of Mary into Heaven
Preparatory Prayer (p. 133).
MEDITATION
1.THE wages of sin is death. Now, as the Blessed Virgin from the first moment of her existence was preserved from all sin, and even from original sin, it necessarily follows that death could have no permanent dominion over her, and that her body would not be permitted to see corruption.
2. This sinless body had been the medium by which the body of Our Lord Jesus Christ, who
