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576 CITY OF GOD
Lord, after accomplishing the Redemption of man, should
return to the right hand of the Father, and that his most
blessed Mother should remain in the Church, so that,
through her industry and merits, the efficacy of the Re
demption should be proved and that She should bring
forth to light the fruit of the passion and death of her
divine Son.
681. With ineffable and mysterious providence Christ
our Savior arranged his works, showing
in them his
divine wisdom, magnificence and glory, confiding entirely
in this
strong Woman, as described by Solomon (Prov.
31, 11). And his confidence was not frustrated, since
the most prudent Mother, by uniting her own solicitude
and merits with his passion and blood, purchased for
her Son the field in which She planted the vines of the
Church. These were the souls of the faithful, prop
agated in the Church on earth, and of the predestined,
in whom the Church was to be transplanted to the tri
umphant Jerusalem forever and forever. If it was befitting
the glory of the Most High, that all this great work
should be entrusted to Mary, in order that our Savior
Jesus might enter into the glory of his Father after his
glorious Resurrection, then it was also no more than
He should keep up his
just that, as far as was possible,
intercourse with his most blessed Mother, whom He had
left in the world and whom He loved without measure.
To this He was held not only by his own love toward his
Mother, but by her state and the task imposed upon Her
during her sojourn on earth, where the grace, the means,
the favors and blessings must necessarily be in proportion
with the origin and the end of those hidden mysteries.
All these requirements were gloriously fulfilled by the
frequent visits of the Son to his Mother and by her being
raised to the throne of his glory. Thus, neither would
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