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<p>TRANSLATOR'S NOTICE.
Father Muzzarelli was the originator of the Devotion of the Month of May to the honour of the Blessed Virgin, in the city of Rome. Besides several small devotional books, he is likewise the author of a larger work, in great esteem, upon the "Right Use of Logic in Matters of Religion." It is right to mention this, in order that this little book may have a weight, which perhaps it would not have, if it were supposed to be the production of one who was devout, but not a theologian. He was also for many years the director of a Seminary for the education of youth.
St. Hilary, speaking of the mind of little children, says : "These follow their Father, love their Mother, know not how to wish their neighbour ill, are not busy looking after wealth, are not insolent, hate not, lie not, believe what is said, and think all they hear is true." Those perhaps. who sincerely wish and endeavour to obtain this temper, will find in this book opportunities for cultivating it.
Some minds are to be impressed in one way, some in another: and many there surely are, to whom nothing will seem more winning and attractive, than that frank and natural expression of childlike reliance upon the Mother of God, which gaily dispenses with an uncongenial wariness, not from forgetfulness of the feelings of others, but from the singleness and intensity of its own.
"Quod proprio vestem maternam in corpore gessit, Propria quae sit ei gloria, Mater habet." St. Ephrem. 
J. B. M.
St. Mary's, Oscott. 
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<br>Subjects: Devotional exercises -- Catholic Church; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- May devotions; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Devotional exercises</div>
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Muzzarelli, Alfonso, 1749-1813</div>
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