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| Our Lady In Doctrine and Devotion By: William G. Most (c) Copyright by William G. Most, 1994
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CHAPTERS - Preliminaries - Eternal Plans - Prophetic Plan - Sinai Covenant - Immaculate Conception - Realisation of the Eternal Plan - Perpetual virginity - Divine Motherhood - The Temple Presentation - The Finding in the Temple - Difficulties for Mary's faith - Start of His Public Life - Cooperation in Redemption - Mediatrix of All Graces - At the First Pentecost - Mother of the Church - Assumption - Queenship - Consortium - Mary and Vatican II - Revelation 12 - Some Marian Devotions - To Imitate Her Virtues - Marian Consecration - Infused Contemplation - Our Lady in Heaven - Private Revelations - Appendix: Discernment of Spirits - Supplement: Appearances and revelation - Study Questions - Answers To Study Questions Books/Resources by Fr. Most - EWTN Scripture Q & A - Basic Scripture - Bible Commentaries - Our Lady in Doctrine And Devotion - Outline of Christology - An Introduction to Christian Philosophy - The Living God - The Holy Spirit and The Church - Catholic Apologetics Notes Apologetic Resources - Ask Father - Biblical Catholicism - Theology/Philosophy - Scripture Resources - Scott Hahns Lectures - Apologetics Links Other Services - Catholic Chaplaincy - St. Anthony Communications | CHAPTER XXV. Our Lady in Heaven The central object and source of blessedness in heaven is of course God Himself. But the Sacred Humanity of Christ is also an immense source of blessedness, as also His Mother. Pope Pius XII wrote splendidly about this truth (Address to Italian Catholic Action Youth, Dec. 8, 1953. From The Pope Speaks, 1954, 1. p. 38. Internal quote is from Dante, Paradiso, 31. 130-35):" Surely, in the face of His own Mother, God has gathered together all the splendors of His divine artistry... . You know, beloved sons and daughters, how easily human beauty enraptures and exalts a kind heart. What would it ever do before the beauty of Mary!. That is why Dante saw in Paradise, in the midst of 'more than a million rejoicing Angels, a beauty smiling - what joy! It was in the eyes of all the other Saints': Mary !"