MARY IMMACULATE -
THE EVIDENCE
THE EVIDENCE
3. The Church.
For 19 centuries the Church was longing for this dogma. Watch the magnificent parade: there are the holy Fathers, the Doctors, the ecclesiastical writers, the Mystics, the Ascetics, all the Saints (and especially those who most loved Mary) who have woven an endless crown of praises to Her Immaculate Conception. There are the Virgins of the Holy Church who in order to follow Her immaculate purity, gave themselves up to Her through the vow of virginity. Behold how many they are and how resplendent! What a fine army under the banner of Mary Immaculate.
The whole Christian people acclaimed Her in hymn and song, pure and spotless in Her Conception. There has been no dogma more strongly and deeply felt, nor one better understood than this. After 19 centuries of waiting Pope Pius IX, gathering all that longing and praise, shapes with it as Her everlasting crown the dogmatic definition of the Immaculate Conception of Mary.
Pause and see Mary as the shining goal of the praises of the whole Church in this mystery. See how those words of the Magnificat are fulfilled! All generations shall call Me Blessed! (St. Luke 1:48)
For 19 centuries the Church was longing for this dogma. Watch the magnificent parade: there are the holy Fathers, the Doctors, the ecclesiastical writers, the Mystics, the Ascetics, all the Saints (and especially those who most loved Mary) who have woven an endless crown of praises to Her Immaculate Conception. There are the Virgins of the Holy Church who in order to follow Her immaculate purity, gave themselves up to Her through the vow of virginity. Behold how many they are and how resplendent! What a fine army under the banner of Mary Immaculate.
The whole Christian people acclaimed Her in hymn and song, pure and spotless in Her Conception. There has been no dogma more strongly and deeply felt, nor one better understood than this. After 19 centuries of waiting Pope Pius IX, gathering all that longing and praise, shapes with it as Her everlasting crown the dogmatic definition of the Immaculate Conception of Mary.
Pause and see Mary as the shining goal of the praises of the whole Church in this mystery. See how those words of the Magnificat are fulfilled! All generations shall call Me Blessed! (St. Luke 1:48)
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