Mediatrix

Tomorrow the Church celebrates the great feast of Mary’s assumption into heaven.

In 1950 the assumption was proclaimed a dogma. At the time psychologist Carl Gustav Jung commented on the religious and psychological significance of this event in his book ‘Answer to Job’:

“One could have known for a long time that there was a deep longing in the masses for an intercessor and mediatrix who would at last take her place alongside the Holy Trinity and be received as the ‘Queen of heaven and Bride at the heavenly court.’
(Mary’s) position satisfies a renewed hope for the fulfillment of that yearning for peace which stirs deep down in the soul, and for a resolution of the threatening tension between opposites.”

The assumption in ‘Answer to Job’