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Trustful
Guest
Archbishop Fulton Sheen:
There is, actually, only ONE person in all humanity of whom God has one picture, and IN WHOM THERE IS A PERFECT CONFORMITY BETWEEN WHAT HE WANTED HER TO BE AND WHAT SHE IS, and that is His own Mother. Most of us are a minus sign, in the sense that we do not fulfill the high hopes the Heavenly Father has for us. But Mary is the equal sign. The ideal that God had of her–that she is, and in the flesh. The model and the copy are perfect; she is all that was foreseen, planned, and dreamed. The melocy of her life is played, just as it was written. Mary was thought, conceived, and planned as the equal sign between ideal and history, thought and reality, hope and realization…
As Eden was the Paradise of Creation, Mary is the Paradise of the Incarnation, and in her as a Garden was celebrated the first nuptials of God and man. The closer one gets to fire, the greater the heat; the closer one is to God, the greater the purity. But since no one was ever closer to God than the woman whose human portals He threw open to walk this earth, then no one could have been more pure than she…
She is the one whom every man loves when he loves a woman–whether he knows it or not. She is what every woman wants to be, when she looks at herself…She is the secret desire every woman has to be honored and fostered; she is the way every woman wants to command respect and love because of the beauty of her goodness of body and soul…This Dream Woman…is the one of whom every heart can say in its depth of depths: "She is the Woman I love!"
There is, actually, only ONE person in all humanity of whom God has one picture, and IN WHOM THERE IS A PERFECT CONFORMITY BETWEEN WHAT HE WANTED HER TO BE AND WHAT SHE IS, and that is His own Mother. Most of us are a minus sign, in the sense that we do not fulfill the high hopes the Heavenly Father has for us. But Mary is the equal sign. The ideal that God had of her–that she is, and in the flesh. The model and the copy are perfect; she is all that was foreseen, planned, and dreamed. The melocy of her life is played, just as it was written. Mary was thought, conceived, and planned as the equal sign between ideal and history, thought and reality, hope and realization…
As Eden was the Paradise of Creation, Mary is the Paradise of the Incarnation, and in her as a Garden was celebrated the first nuptials of God and man. The closer one gets to fire, the greater the heat; the closer one is to God, the greater the purity. But since no one was ever closer to God than the woman whose human portals He threw open to walk this earth, then no one could have been more pure than she…
She is the one whom every man loves when he loves a woman–whether he knows it or not. She is what every woman wants to be, when she looks at herself…She is the secret desire every woman has to be honored and fostered; she is the way every woman wants to command respect and love because of the beauty of her goodness of body and soul…This Dream Woman…is the one of whom every heart can say in its depth of depths: "She is the Woman I love!"
