'Duc Nos Quo Tendimus'

Extract

There are two Feasts which, maybe, can be celebrated with special unselfishness—that of the Immaculate Conception, and that of the Assumption. We must not feel it wrong if we keep the great feasts of our Lord with a certain consciousness of ourself, for after all, the Incarnation and all that it made possible—the Passion and the Resurrection itself—were ordained propter nos homines; for the sake of us men and our salvation. Even the Ascension, which can indeed be celebrated most unselfishly’ as the feast of our Lord's glorification, yet reminds us that as we are co-risen, so we are to be co-glorified.

Of course, since all the perfections of our Lady were granted to her in view of her Son—Christus cogitabatur—she too can be thought °f as existing ultimately for our sake. But I should find it difficult to see how the Assumption can be regarded otherwise than as something for our Lady's own sake, and for the glory of God.