Thought for the Day 8 September 2009

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Categorised as Thought of the Day and published Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
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It was no heavenly body which the Eternal Son assumed, fashioned by the angels, and brought down to this lower world: no; He imbibed, He absorbed into His Divine Person, [Mary's] blood and the substance of her flesh; by becoming man of her, He received her lineaments and features, as the appropriate character in which He was to manifest Himself to mankind.

From the sermon ‘On the Fitness of the Glories of Mary’ (1849) Click here for the full text (leaves site)