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Years before either the Immaculate Conception or the Assumption of Our Lady were formally declared dogmas of the Church, St John Henry Newman preached an unwavering devotion to Mary. In an introduction to these two important discourses, Dr Rebekah Lamb Varela explains how Newman, Doctor of the Church, understood Marian devotion as inherently Christological, always leading the way to deeper union with Christ. In the discourses themselves, Newman opens for the reader the mysteries revealed, graces procured and spiritual benefit bestowed on every Christian who draws close to Mary, the Mother of God. 

Above all, let us imitate [Our Lady’s] purity… O my dear children, young men and young women, what need have you of the intercession of the Virgin-mother, of her help, of her pattern, in this respect! What shall bring you forward in the narrow way, if you live in the world, but the thought and patronage of Mary? What shall seal your senses, what shall tranquillise your heart, when sights and sounds of danger are around you, but Mary? What shall give you patience and endurance, when you are wearied out with the length of the conflict with evil, with the unceasing necessity of precautions, with the irksomeness of observing them, with the tediousness of their repetition, with the strain upon your mind, with your forlorn and cheerless condition, but a loving communion with her! She will comfort you in your discouragements, solace you in your fatigues, raise you after your falls, reward you for your successes. She will show you her Son, your God and your all.

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