Folia Theologica 21. (2010)
Barbour Hugh O.Praem.: The Cosmology of Catholic Communications: Postmodern Kerygma? A Reflection by a Disciple of SS. Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas
THE COSMOLOGY OF CATHOLIC 163 give them the means, the media to understand the mysteries of faith contained in the verbal and natural signs which constitute divine revelation. The medium then indeed becomes the message, since only the Christian revelation gives to the world of human symbolic knowledge the confidence that it attains to the realities signified in the most ordinary sensible perceptions of the workings of nature. Has the Blessed Virgin helped us today? I hope so. She is the Mulier amicta sole cum luna sub pedibus eius, the Signum magnum quod apparuit in caelo. She epitomizes as the noblest of mere creatures the powers of the natural universe, and as the greatest of signs, the Virgin of the Sign announced by Isaiah, she is the model of all media of communication. This Apocalyptic Virgin about to deliver, is, to use the words of the servant of God Paul VI, "the star of evangelization, ever renewed within the Church."11 May she guide all those who devote themselves to the imaginum scientia effectively moving the souls of men to know and to desire the things of heaven and to avoid the onslaughts of hell. The Royal Solomon exclaims in words which have been beautifully set in choral song by César Franck and song beautifully in a recording I have of it by the Kodály Choir of Debrecen: Quae est ista quae progreditur quasi aurora consurgens, pulchra ut luna, electa ut sol, terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata? 11 Evangelii Nuntiandi, 82.
