[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

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to peasants and beggars and people in trouble, this sense of Mary's power and calm is better than active sympathy. People who suffer beyond the formulas of expression, who are crushed into silence and beyond pain, want no display of emotion, no bleeding heart, no weeping at the foot of the Cross, no hysterics, no phrases! They want to see God, and to know that He is watching over His own...

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