Year: 1875

founded his arguments the gospel Of the festival
Luke XII 42-52, and said:-


SERMON.


Tho Church invites to-day to do honor to
the great prerogatives of the Blessed Virgin
Mary. 1t is the teaching OF the Christian
fathers Us well of the Church that Mary truly,
and s to be called, the mother OF God This is but
sequence Of the cardinal doctrine Of Christianity the
divinity of Jesus Christ Mary is the mother Of God
II she Is not her son is not God, and our belief in
Christianity is delusion This doctrine coeval with
the Christian religion. In the early part Of the fifth
century bishop of the Church. carried away by intel
ectual PRIDE asserted that there two persons
Christ and the laity, so firmly grounded were they
in the faith that the son of Mary was God,
branded him as q hereto When, in the
Church Of St Sophia, Constantnope, bishop had the
audacty to question the divine maternity the people
rushed from the sacred building, horror stricken
his mpiety. ST. Ceestne l, the then shepherd of
Christ's flock, mathematical the error and in the
third General Council Nestorius was condemned and
the Catholic that Christ God autlortatively
defined. AS a corollary TO that doctrine the same
Council declared Mary TO be the mother OF God


Christ is God Mary is tho mother Of Christ There
FORE Mary is the mother OF God Those who refuse to
acknowledge the divine maternity sin against logic and
against the fundamental article Of the Christian faith
The early fathers loved 10 contemplate the analogy be
tween the Eve Mary, and the old Eve By whose
fall sin and It's countless train OF evils entered INTO the
world.


St Paul speaks Of Christ as the new Adam, and the
fathers OF the Church teach that in the supernatural
order Mary discharges the same Office Eve in tho
natural An angel OF darkness salutes Eve in tho gar
den OF Eden and she falls into his In the uness
Of time when Christ to be born, the wonderful
Virgin, to the pagan poet Virgil alludes IN his
fourth eclogue-the stem that ito bring forth tho
flower OF Israe-was saluted by the Angel Gabriel in
the beautiful words, Hail full OF grace the Lord is
with thee; blessed art thou among women" And Gods
messenger tells her why she is blessed-"Behod thou
shalt conceive in thy womb and shalt bring forth SON.
and thou shalt call his name Jesus"


AT the fiat ofMary Behod the handmade Of the Lord;
be Il done unto me according TO thy word" full
filed the words of ST. John, The word made flesh
and dwelt among IA Scarcely had this wondrous
miracle been wrought In Mary's womb when she
charitaby went TO visit her cousin St Elizabeth, and
the mother or Chrsts precursor cried with loud
voice and said, Whence is this to that the mother
OF my Lord should TO mo ~ ST. Elizabeth pro-
tests that Mary the mother Of her Lord, did her
much honor in coming 70 visit her. In this
days gospel read ''Ho went down with them
and came to Nazareth and subject TO them
How pregnant with meaning this short history Of many
years in the life of our Lord He subject Mary
and Joseph The eternal Son OF the eternal God sub
ject His mother and foster father He honorod and
obeyed Mary. How then, be Indifferent to this
woman, whom Christ has honored, revered and
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