CHAPTER XXV. Our Lady in Heaven
The central object and source of blessedness in heaven is of course God
Himself. But the Sacred Humanity of Christ is also an immense source of
blessedness, as also His Mother. Pope Pius XII wrote splendidly about this
truth (Address to Italian Catholic Action Youth, Dec. 8, 1953. From The
Pope Speaks, 1954, 1. p. 38. Internal quote is from Dante, Paradiso, 31.
130-35):" Surely, in the face of His own Mother, God has gathered together
all the splendors of His divine artistry... . You know, beloved sons and
daughters, how easily human beauty enraptures and exalts a kind heart. What
would it ever do before the beauty of Mary!. That is why Dante saw in
Paradise, in the midst of 'more than a million rejoicing Angels, a beauty
smiling - what joy! It was in the eyes of all the other Saints': Mary !"
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