[Copiae indulgentiarum de institutione festi Praesentationis beatae Mariae virginis concessarum]

everyone should not cease from praises, even the sinner, because in the praises of the Savior is the path of our salvation. But you, O Lord, have mercy on us. Responsorium: Standing in the temple, the Virgin refreshes the sweet Lord of the coming heaven. Her mind perfects itself there with the beauty of graces. Verse: Always exercising great works, she merits more pleasing gifts. Her mind...

Fifth Lesson.

Therefore, do not cease in your praises in honor of the holy Mother of God. For she is the Virgin Mary who was void of no kind of virtue, to whom the messenger of God asserted the fullness of grace. For who, with joyful admiration, would not contemplate the strength of her adolescent nature and her prudence and faith in the angelic conversation, where she speaks so constantly, asks so prudently, and believes so easily? Who would not admire her justice, since she was so diligent in fulfilling all the precepts of the divine law, that she would not even leave fulfilled certain things pertaining to her as if for legal purification...