Night, Dawn And Day

Maria diluculum. Diluculum, de quo dicitur, Osee: Quasi diluculum praeparatus est egressus ejus. Diluculum dicitur. Ortus Mariae fuit diluculum diei gratiae: quia usque ad ipsam duravit nox quam prima mater in mundum introduxit. Et hujus diluculi principium fuit obscurum per originale, sed cito illuminatum, scilicet in sanctificationes sicut supra dictum est de aurora. Ortus vero Christi fuit plena dies. Unde tunc canitur illud Isaise: Populus qui ambulabat in tenebris, vidit lucem magnam. Ideo etiam tunc dictum est pastoribus: Natus est vobis hodie Salvator, etc. Et dictum est hodie cum esset nox: quia de illa nocte praedixerat Psalmista: Nox sicut dies illuminabitur, etc. Sanctus Albertus Magnus, De Laudibus Beatae Mariae Virginis, Liber Septimus, De Appellationibus Mariae, Caput VIII Source: Here, p219

Mary As Daybreak The daybreak of which Hosea says, 'As the daybreak His going forth is prepared.' 1 Mary was the dawn arising for the grace of the day, because until her the night which our first mother brought about prevailed. And the beginning of this dawn was the darkness that was, but suddenly it was illuminated, that is, into sanctification, as was previously said about the dawn. But Christ was the fullness of the day. Whence it is sung in Isaiah: 'The people who have walked in darkness have seen a great light.' 2 Therefore it was said to the shepherds, 'Today a Saviour is born to you.' 3 And it was said 'today' when it was night, because of that night the Psalmist foretold, 'Night shall be illuminated like the day.' 4 Saint Albert The Great, On the Praises of The Blessed Virgin Mary, Book 7, On The Names of Mary, Chapter 8 1 Hosea 6.3 2 Isaiah 9.2 3 Lk 2.11 4 Ps 138.12