2. Inviolata
Ecce ancilla Domini
Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum
Behold the handmaid of the Lord
Be it done according to Thy Word
Inviolata integra et casta es, Maria,
quae es effecta fulgitda coeli porta.
O Mater alma Christi carissima,
suscipe laudum praeconia
nostra ut pura pectora sint et corpora,
te nunc flagitant devota corda et ora.
Tua per precata dulcisona,
nobis concedats veniam per saecula.
O benigna, O Regina, O Maria,
quae sola inviolata permansisti.
Inviolate, immaculate and chaste art thou, Maria
who has become the glowing gate of heaven.
O Mother of Christ, so kind and most dear,
receive our devoted hymns of praise:
that our minds and bodies may be always chaste,
with fervent heart and tongue we now implore thee.
Through thy sweetly sounding prayer
Obtain for us, pardon for ever.
O tender, O Queen, O Maria,
who alone stayed inviolate.

Angelus and Inviolata from Roman Gradual

Our children must be taught, from the earliest periods at which their minds can grasp such teaching, the inviolable sanctity of their sexual nature - the irreparable ills which follow its abuse. They must be saturated with the conviction that impurity is a foul and hateful sin, that the perversion of these instincts through whatever agency is a plunge into a fathomless abyss of turpitude from which they will never emerge with a clean soul.

Victorian Child Rearing Manual

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