God will reward her as she deserves and you, too, Senor, according to the disposition you bring to this great work which has the blessing (here he crossed himself) of our Holy Mother the Church."
It is salutary for our conscience and is recommended (he crossed himself) by our Holy Mother the Church.
Vows are the knots which tie us to Heaven they are the cords which bind the sacrifice to the horns of the altar, and are therefore, as I said before, to be unloosened and discharged, unless our
holy Mother Church shall pronounce the contrary.
The old scholar and his daughter embraced, and the former said, "Truly the
Holy Mother has done more than she promised, child, for she has give you a splendid marriage portion-- think of it, two thousand pieces of gold!"
Adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine Saviour and His most
Holy Mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care!
So, I asked Potapitch where all these gentry had come from; for, thought I, maybe the
Holy Mother of God will help our mistress among them.
It is a hardy question, fair sir and Boss, since it doth go far to impugn the wisdom of even our
holy Mother Church herself."
But when the Christians came into power, when the
holy Mother Church became mistress of the barbarians, she taught them the error of their ways by no such means.
"To proceed, then," continued Cardenio: "all being assembled in the hall, the priest of the parish came in and as he took the pair by the hand to perform the requisite ceremony, at the words, 'Will you, Senora Luscinda, take Senor Don Fernando, here present, for your lawful husband, as the
holy Mother Church ordains?' I thrust my head and neck out from between the tapestries, and with eager ears and throbbing heart set myself to listen to Luscinda's answer, awaiting in her reply the sentence of death or the grant of life.
A magnificent excuse: 'Pyotr Petrovitch is such a busy man that even his wedding has to be in post-haste, almost by express.' No, Dounia, I see it all and I know what you want to say to me; and I know too what you were thinking about, when you walked up and down all night, and what your prayers were like before the
Holy Mother of Kazan who stands in mother's bedroom.
On his feast day, the Church encourages the faithful to offer special prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to recite the Holy Rosary, which the Spanish saint helped promote after it was given to him by the
Holy Mother during an apparition in the year 1208.