Jesus says: Today write only this. Purity has such a value, that the womb of a creature can contain the uncontainable One, because She possessed the greatest purity that a creature of God could have.
The Most Holy Trinity descended with Its perfections, inhabited with Its Three Persons, enclosed Its infinity in a small space. But it did not debase Itself by doing so, because the love of the Virgin and the will of God widened this space until they rendered it a Heaven.
And the Most Holy Trinity made Itself known by Its characteristics:
The Father, being once again the Creator of the creature as on the sixth day of Creation, had a real worthy daughter fashioned to His perfect image. The mark of God was impressed so completely and exactly on Mary that only in the First-born was it greater. Mary can be called the Second-born of the Father because, owing to the perfection granted to Her and preserved by Her, and to her dignity as Spouse and Mother of God and Queen of Heaven, She comes second after the Son of the Father and second in His eternal thought, which from eternity took delight in Her.
The Son, being also "Her Son," did teach Her by the mystery of Grace His truth and wisdom, when He was but an Embryo growing in Her womb.
The Holy Spirit appeared amongst men for an anticipated prolonged Pentecost: Love for "Her Whom He loved," Consolation to men because of the Fruit of Her Womb, Sanctification on account of the Maternity of the Holy One.
God, to reveal Himself to men in the new and complete form, which starts the Redemption era, did not select for His throne a star in the sky, nor the palace of a powerful man. Neither did He want the wings of angels as the base of His feet. He wanted a spotless womb.
Also Eve had been created spotless. But she wanted to become corrupt of her own free will. Mary Who lived in a corrupt world--Eve was in a pure world--did not wish to violate Her purity, not even with one thought remotely connected with sin. She knew that sin exists. She saw its various and horrible forms and implications. She saw them all, including the most hideous one: deicide, the murder of God. But She knew them solely to expiate them and to be for ever the Woman who has mercy on sinners and prays for their redemption.
This thought will be the introduction to other holy things that I will give you for your benefit and the welfare of many people.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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