With the Third Part commences the contemplation of the Kingdom (Rhythm 125), the Glory of the Court of Heaven, and the Vision of the Blessed; and this is followed by the formation of a Triumphant Church in the midst of persecution, and the bitter warfare between good and evil. The personal activity of our Lady in the affairs of the Church Militant are touched upon. (Rhythms 133 - 140) The worship of the Church is then contrasted with idolatrous worship in Rhythm 138.
Among the remainder of the poems are found several paraphrases, beginning with Rhythms 140 and 141 which are taken from Holy Scripture: then follow others from Saint Basil of Seleucia and Saint Epiphanius in Rhythm 144; from Saint Cyril of Alexandria in Rhythm 147, and from Saint Ambrose de Virginibus, Rhythm 148.
The doctrine contained in the Poems is sustained throughout, by the words and devotions of the early and the later Fathers of the Church; by the testimony of Saints and Doctors; and above all, by the explicit teaching of the Catholic Church in the Missal and Breviary as the exponents of Sacred Scripture.
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A precious gift has our earth this day sent up to heaven, that by the giving and the receiving thereof may be knit together in happy covenant of friendship the things of man with the things of God, the things of earth with the things of heaven, the lowest with the highest. For thither has the glorious fruit of earth gone up whence the best and most perfect gifts come down. For when the Blessed Virgin ascends on high she also shall give gifts to men.
- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, from 'Virgin Mother of God'
- text taken from Mary: The Perfect Woman, by Emily Mary Shapcote