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28 MARY'S DIVINE MOTHERHOOD matic Bull " Ineffabilis Deus' of Pope Pius IX (Dec. ioth, 1854). ]14 2. Theological Aspects of the Dogma.— We now proceed to consider the dogma from the specifically theological standpoint by studying (a) its scope and (b) its limitations. a) The state of grace, generally speaking, cul- minates in sanctifying grace. Hence the fulness of grace enjoyed by the Blessed Virgin Mary must be conceived as a superabundance of interior holiness. How is her sanctity to be measured in the concrete ? In trying to estimate it at its proper worth, let us compare the Mother of God, first to her Divine Son, and secondly to the Angels and Saints. Her sanctity was inferior to the created sanctity of Jesus in proportion as divine motherhood falls short of the prerogative of the Hypostatic Union. In comparing her sanctity to that of the Angels and Saints, we shall find it difficult to establish a definite line of demarcation. No doubt the sanctity of the Blessed Virgin, while vastly inferior to the created sanctity of Christ, surpasses that of the most glorious seraph and the greatest Saints. The epithet " full of grace " has a different meaning as pinquat principio in aliquo genere, tanto magis participat affectum illius principiL . . . Christus autem est principium gratiae, secundum divinitatem quidem auctoritative, secundum humanitatem vero instru- mentaliter. . . . Beata autem virgo Maria propinquissima Christo fuit secundum humanitatem, quia ex ea accepit humanam naturam. Et ideo prae caeteris maiorem debuit a Christo gratiae plenitudinem ob- tinere." 14 An almost complete transla- tion of this Bull will be found in the Marquess of Bute's English edition of the Roman Breviary, Office for the Octave of the Immaculate Conception. See also The Little Book of the Immac. Con- ception, Dublin 1913.
MARY'S FULNESS OF GRACE 29 applied by Sacred Scripture (1) to our Lord Himself, 15 (2) to St. Stephen, 16 (3) to the Apostles, 17 and (4) to our Blessed Lady. Though infinitely below the Godman, yet as Mother of God, Mary ranks high above her fellow creatures. Analogously, her plenitudo gratiae is intermediate between the fulness of grace peculiar to Christ and that of the holy Angels and Saints, far out- ranking the latter. Theologians are wont to describe it as "plenitudo summae abundantiae" or "plenitudo redundantiae," but they, deny that it is actually infinite, since not even the created sanctity of our Lord Him- self can be conceived as gratia actu inßnita. 18 To obtain some idea of the high degree of sanctifying grace peculiar to our Lady, we may assume with Suarez that it transcends by far the combined sanctity of all the Angels and Saints. 19 What is true of sanctifying grace, must, mutatis mu- tandis, also be true of its supernatural effects, such as the theological virtues, the gifts of the Holy Ghost, and the infused moral virtues, with the sole exception of contri- tion, which our Blessed Mother cannot have exercised because she was sinless. b) The Schoolmen reduced the truths we have just set forth to a technical axiom, to wit: "Alii ad mensuram gratiam acceperunt, Maria autem gratiae plenitudinem." Being liable to exagger- 15 Cfr. John I, 14: TrXr/prji 19 Suarez, De Myst. Vitae Christi, Xapn-os kclI äXrjdetas- disp. 18, sect. 4, n. 8: "Si mente 16 Acts VI, 8: "2,Te(f>aovs de concipiamus ex multitudine gratiair\r]pr)s vapiros. ruin sanctorum {et angelorum) om- 1" Cfr. Acts II, 4: eTrXrjcrOrjffav nium unam intentissimam gratiam vavres irvevfiaros äyiov. consurgere, non adaequaret inten~ 18 Cfr. Pohle-Preuss, Christology, sionem gratiae Virginis." pp. 230 sqq.
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SECTION 3 mary's perpetual virginit
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HER PERPETUAL VIRGINITY 85 was done
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SECTION 4 mary's bodily assumption
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HER ASSUMPTION 107 suffered tempora
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HER ASSUMPTION 119 Catholicae Verit
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