MARY, SIGN OF HOPE AND SOME CONSOLATION
FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD IN MARKET
FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD IN MARKET
If the Mother of Jesus, glorified in heaven in body and in his soul is the image and the beginning of what will be the Church in its completed form, the coming century, well! on the land until the coming of the day the Lord (cf. II Pet. 3, 10), it shines, before the People of God by walking as a sign of sure hope and consolation. is a great joy and great comfort to this sacred synod there is no shortage of people, even among the separated brethren to go to the Mother of the Lord and Savior, the honor due to him, especially in Orientals competing ardor and devotion in the worship of the Mother of God, ever Virgin. What with all the faithful address Instance of prayers to the Mother of God and Mother of men who surrounded her in her prayers the beginnings of the Church, and now is exalted above all the blessed and all the angels, yes, they pray to intercede, in union with all the saints, with her son, until all families of peoples, whether Christian or marked with the name they do not yet know their Savior, are happily gathered together in peace and harmony into one People of God for the glory of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity
(VATICAN II: "Lumen Gentium" , 68-69).
Rome near St. Peter's, November 21, 1964.
Rome near St. Peter's, November 21, 1964.
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