out of the deep pit into which my sins have cast me, and make me save my soul.
Hail Mary, etc.
Ejaculation (p. 97).
SEVENTH DAY
Mary's Fortitude in Suffering
Preparatory Prayer (p. 95).
MEDITATION
Although Mary's consent was free, and freely given, she was clearly convinced and perfectly conscious of the responsibility, the obligations, and the duties involved by that consent, and which she now assumed. Great are the duties and tearful the days of a mother who has to raise her Son, who is also God, to be sacrificed on the cross. Mary assumes with the dignity this responsibility. She consents to conceive the Son of God, to give birth to Him, to nourish Him, to educate Him for the ignominious death of the cross. When she pronounced the words, "Be it done," her eyes were fixed on the distant tragedy of Golgotha, on the cross towering upon its height. Yet she accepts it, together with the dignity of Mother of God.
