No creature is concealed from him,
but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him
to whom we must render an account.
but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him
to whom we must render an account.
-- Heb
4:12-16
"After speaking of the Church, her origin,
mission, and destiny, we can find no better way to conclude than by
looking to Mary. In her we contemplate what the Church already is in her
mystery on her own "pilgrimage of faith," and what she will be in the
homeland at the end of her journey. There, "in the glory of the Most
Holy and Undivided Trinity," "in the communion of all the saints," the
Church is awaited by the one she venerates as Mother of her Lord and as
her own mother.
- "In the meantime the Mother of Jesus, in the glory which she possesses in body and soul in heaven, is the image and beginning of the Church as it is to be perfected in the world to come. Likewise she shines forth on earth until the day of the Lord shall come, a sign of certain hope and comfort to the pilgrim People of God."
- -- CCC 972
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