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The Lady of Fair Love

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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In his latest encyclical, ‘Fulgens corona gloria', the Pope has proclaimed our Lady's Year. The occasion of this proclamation is the centenary celebration in December of the infallible definition of the Immaculate Conception, of the Virgin Mother of God. This is but an instance of the progressive development of Marian tradition from the earliest times is seen to be implicit and almost instinctive in the Faith of the Church. Pope Pius XII has allied himself closely with that tradition by becoming its spokesman. This he has done in defining the dogma of the bodily Assumption of our Blessed Lady into heaven, and dedicating the present commemorative year to her honour.

Between Mary and the mysteries of faith there is an essential connection. This is seen so clearly in the Holy Rosary, wherein the joys, sorrows and glories of a holy partnership between the Son and his Mother are woven into a garland of prayer.

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Copyright © 1954 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 The N.T. Witness To Our Blessed Lady, Fr Vincent McNabb, O.P., p.12.

2 Pope Pius XI, Lux Veritalis, 25 December, 1931.

3 Summa I, 25, 6 ad I.

4 Mary Mother of God, Vassall-Phillips, 4.77.x. (The Teaching of the Catholic Church, Vol. I, p. 526).

5 Letters, p. 60.