Happy Feast Day of St. Maria Goretti!
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May God almighty, by the maternal patronage and tutelage the Queen of Virgins, the Blessed Virgin Mary, together with the intercession of St. Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr, vouchsafe unto each and everyone of us the graces and blessings necessary for perseverance and progress in the cultivation of the interior life, most especially by means of self-abnegation― particularly by interior and exterior mortification, the glorious flower of which is the illustrious virginity that crowned our heroic Martyr.
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