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27 May 2017

Ascension and Distinction

'Ascendo ad Patrem meum, et Patrem vestrum, Deum meum, et Deum vestrum'

Bene distinxit, quia mulieri loquebatur; non enim communis nobis natura cum Christo, nisi conditionis humanae. Illi Pater generatione propria, nobis adoptione voluntaria: illi per naturam, nobis per gratiam, illi Deus unitate mysterii, nobis potestate coelesti.


Sanctus Ambrosius Mediolanensis, Expositio Evangelii secundum Lucam, Liber X


'I ascend to My Father and your Father my God and your God' 1

Well he makes the distinction when he speaks to the woman, for, apart from our human condition, there is not a common nature of us with Christ. To Him the Father is on account of His generation, to us it is by voluntary adoption, what is to Him by nature, is to us by grace, to Him God is united in mystery, to us it is by the power of heaven.

Saint Ambrose, Commentary On The Gospel of Luke, Book 10

1 Jn 20.17

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