Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

THE SECOND MAN VERIFIED IN HISTORY. 141hich conveys and harmonisesand workall its details the whole revelation of God, and sois the utterance of one voice, the voice of Christ;speaking to all nations, not in the broken lanoguages O of their division, i but in the Unity J of HisPerson, carried by His Body. We have then inthe one Fire the one inward power; in the onelanguage its outward expression, in the assemblyits receptacle, the House of God. This Body appearsat once as formed and complete. In it sitsand prays in her silent tenderness and unapproachablegrandeur, as the Mother of the risenLord and Head, and the Mother too of His race,the most beloved, * the U-LAVy most -LAAWKJU lovable, AVy T CUfr^J-V^* and the mostloving of creatures,23 whose great function in theChurch for ever is to pray for the members of herSon, and to solicit the graces of His Spirit, whichas the Mother of the sacred race she gains anddistributes to all and each that belong to it, aSecond Eve who corresponds to the Second Adam,as the First Eve in the divine plan correspondedto the First Adam. In it the Apostles, so longbefore chosen and designated by their Lord, andhaving already received from Him portions of theirsupernatural power on the day of His resurrection^^"^^^^^^^"^^P^^^^^^H^^^^^^V^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^V^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^B_^^^^^^B_ln^^^^H__l__^^^H^^^^^_ __Fifthly, correspondence to fact.In the Apocalypse our Lord is designated " the holy, the true," " theAmen, the Witness faithful and true," the rider of the white horse," called faithful and true," " whose name is the Word of God." iii. 7,14 ; xix. 11.23 " La creatura, la piu ainabile, la piu amata, e la pi£ amante di Dio."S. Alfonso, Gran Mezzo della Preghiera, p, 280.