Crowning the statue of Our Lady, you have made a pledge of filial and constant correspondence to her love. You have done more: you have enlisted crusaders for the conquest of her Reign, which is the Reign of God. And in this struggle there can be no neutral or undecided parties.
The three Wise Men did not see the Child ruling over demons or raising the dead. Rather, they found a child placed in the care of his Mother. In this way, what the sound of His voice did not yet proclaim, the simple sight of Him taught them.
In the Bull declaring the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, Pius IX extols the countless virtues and privileges of Our Lady, aware that nothing is sufficient to exalt Her who is superior to all human and angelic praise.
He who in his preaching neglects to lead men to a fuller knowledge of God may be called an idle declaimer, but not a preacher of the Gospel. He may receive the applause of the uninstructed, but will not escape the stern judgement of Christ.
We human beings must also return to being angels to one another – angels who turn people away from erroneous ways and direct them always, ever anew, to God.
Contemporary man lives under the threat of an eclipse of conscience, leading to the obscuring of the sense of God and the disappearance of the sense of sin. This crisis can only be resolved by a clear reminder of the principles that the moral teaching of the Church has always upheld.
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