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44 THE LEGIONARY AND THE HOLY TRINITY CHAPTER 7
so taken up into the Holy Spirit, made one with him,
animated by him, that he is as her very soul. She is no mere
instrument or channel of his activity; she is an intelligent,
conscious co-operator with him to such degree that when she
acts, it is also he who acts; and that if her inter vention be not
accepted, neither is his.
The Holy Spirit is Love, Beauty, Power, Wisdom, Purity, and
all else that is of God. If he descend in plentitude, every need
can be met, and the most grievous problem can be brought
into conformity with the Divine Will. The man who thus
makes the Holy Spirit his helper (Ps 77) enters into the tide of
omnipotence. If one of the conditions for so attracting him is
the understanding of Our Lady’s relation to him, another vital
condition is that we appreciate the Holy Spirit himself as a real,
distinct, Divine Person with his appro priate mission in regard
to us. This appreciation of him will not be maintained except
there be a reasonably frequent turning of the mind to him. By
including just that glance in his direction, every devotion to
the Blessed Virgin can be made a wide-open way to the Holy
Spirit. Especially can legionaries so utilise the rosary. Not only
does the rosary form a prime devotion to the Holy Spirit by
reason of its being the chief prayer to Our Lady, but, as well, its
contents, the twenty mysteries, celebrate the principal
interventions of the Holy Spirit in the drama of redemption.
Mary’s relation to the Eternal Father is usually defined as
that of Daughter. This title is intended to designate: (a) her
position as “the first of all creatures, the most acceptable child
of God, the nearest and dearest to him” (Bl. John Henry
Newman); (b) the fulness of her union with Jesus Christ
which makes her enter into new relations to the Father,*
thereby entitling her to be mystically styled the Daughter of
the Father; (c) the pre-eminent resemblance which she bears
to the Father, which has fitted her to pour out into the world
the everlasting light which issues from that loving Father.
But that title of “Daughter” may not sufficiently bring home
to us the influence which her relation to the Father exerts on us
who are his children and her children. “He has communicated
to her his fruitfulness as far as a mere creature was capable of it,

*“As Mother of God, Mary contracts a certain affinity with the
Father.” (Lépicier)