[stfassisi]

Now in accomplishing this work of redemption, the most blessed Virgin Mary was certainly intimately associated with Christ...." We note the way the word "this" helps to place Mary's co-operation in the context of Calvary: for "this," being a demonstrative, points back to the previous sentence, which spoke of the death of Christ by which we were bought "with a great price."

[stfassisi]

Again, to say that Mary was a sharer or ally in a "struggle with the enemy" which led to a "victory" could hardly mean that she was merely "receptive." If the Holy Father had said only that she shared in the victory or in its fruits, such an expression would not be out of harmony with a receptivity theory. But being a sharer in a "struggle with the enemy" does not seem to refer to a mere receiving of the spoils-it seems more likely to designate a quite active and effective contact with the infernal foe.