In the Garden

Twenty sixth Day

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The Vanilla

This plant fills the whole garden with a very strong fragrance; its flower has no beauty, but it serves to adorn the bouquet and perfumes it. It can not stand by itself, it needs someone to support it.

Continence

Temperance, as the principal virtue, together with abstinence, sobriety, chastity, virginity, with penance and other mortification of the flesh, regulates the strongest passions of a person. Continence checks the passions of the lower order, and to achieve its objective it has at its disposal, clemency, meekness, modesty, humility and moderation in pleasures and merrymaking.

Continence depends on temperance: it is temperance that checks the passions of the lower order; hence, the vanilla plant neither has beautiful flower not could it standby itself.

Continence in Mary

Since Mary's passion did not rebel, this virtue---- continence was given to her with all the perfection that was necessary.

The vanilla flower to Mary

When you feel moved and compelled to go against yourself in addition to the following passions: sadness and melancholy, excessive joy and happiness, unfounded fear and fright, audacity and daringness, love and hatred and other passions, what do you do? Do you give free expansion to the movement of the compeller? Do you extend the wings of the passion and give free flight? If this is so you have to restrain them and keep the excess and the defect in a golden means dictated by right person. Promise and propose to practice it and when you present to Mary your resolutions tell her:

Presentation of the vanilla flower to Mary

PRAYER 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏

LADY: I offer you, together with a bouquet of gillyflower the vanilla, emblem of continence and the restrain that I promise to put all over all my passions . Receive my flower and grant that my flesh may be controlled by the holy fear of God. Amen.

Our Lady of Virtues,Pray for us

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Copied from the Writings MONTH OF MARY of Blessed Francisco Palau OCD