Works on Our Lady

Extract

This is a devout thesis, ‘in sensu composito', and is well worth reading and acting upon. Briefly, the author believes that he has hit upon a great truth in St John's gospel which hardly anyone seems to have adverted to, viz., that on Calvary the Beloved Disciple was entrusted to the care and guardianship of Mary not merely as the representative of the human race but as a priest: it was because he was a priest that he could adequately an” properly be chosen to represent all mankind at the foot of the cross. There is much more to say for this thesis than might appear at first glance. The author has marshalled many persuasive reasons and presented them forcefully. His style is rather alarming, with capitals and thick typ and broken sentences strewn all over the pages, and one fears he would defend it as ‘the psychology of the printed word’ (he does go so far as ‘ speak of the ‘psychology of our Lord on the cross’) but one soon gets use to this, and it has its advantages.