Francis Patrick Kenrick

It is as man that He discharged the oifice of Mediator, since He could hum- ble Himself and suffer only in His human nature. The second Divine Person, who had assumed the human nature, gave dignity and value to His sufferings. He is our only Mediator of redemption. " A mediator should have something in common with both of those between whom he mediates. As He partakes of the nature of man, because He came unto men, so also of that of God, because He comes from God." St. Chrysostom.