Thursday, May 25, 2017

“In the fifteenth century, during a later period of scholastic theology, St. Bernardine of Siena collected and diligently evaluated all that the medieval theologians had said and taught on this question. He was not content with setting down the principal considerations which these writers of an earlier day had already expressed, but he added others of his own. The likeness between God's Mother and her divine Son, in the way of the nobility and dignity of body and of soul-a likeness that forbids us to think of the heavenly Queen as being separated from the heavenly King makes it entirely imperative that Mary ‘should be only where Christ is.’ (St. Bernardine of Siena, In Assumptione B. Mariae Virginis, Sermo 11)”  Pope Pius XII, Munificentissimus Deus, November 1, 1950, Par. 33

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