Let us consider why Our Lord has not only given us apostles, martyrs, and bishops as guides to us on our road to Bethlehem, but has willed also that we should be accompanied thither by such virgins as St. Lucy.
Jesus comes to teach His creatures humility, and He teaches it not by laws given with awful majesty, as once on Sinai, but by meekly practicing that heavenly humility which alone can raise up them that had fallen by pride.
The consent of Mary exercises an immense influence in the saving of the world. It is true that the Word Himself is coming; 'but,' says St. Bernard, 'Mary is the way whereby he comes.'
Archbishop Viganò announced his plans for a new seminary under his supervision while insisting that 'good and holy priests are needed who are not subjected to the blackmail of having to accept the errors of Vatican II or the deviations of Bergoglio in order to exercise their ministry.'
It was due to His own infinite sanctity that God should suspend, in Mary's instance, the law which His divine justice had passed upon all the children of Adam.
In a short time St. Ambrose attained such proficiency in the sacred sciences as to become, like the prophet, 'a wall of brass,' which checked the further progress of Arianism.