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SUMMARY:Memorial of BVM
DESCRIPTION:On the Mother of God\nA Meditation by St Silouan the Athonite \nWhen the soul abides in the love of God – how good and gracious and festive\nall things are! But even with God’s love\, sorrows continue and the greater the love\,\nthe greater the sorrow. Never by a single thought did the Mother of God sin\, nor did\nshe ever lose grace\, yet vast were her sorrows; when she stood at the foot of the Cross\nher grief was as boundless as the ocean and her soul knew torment incomparably\nworse than Adam’s when he was driven from paradise\, in that the measure of her\nlove was beyond compare greater than the love which Adam felt when he was in\nparadise. That she remained alive was only because the Lord’s might sustained her\,\nfor it was His desire that she should behold His Resurrection\, and live on after His\nAscension to be the comfort and joy of the Apostles and the new Christian peoples. \nWe cannot attain to the full the love of the Mother of God\, and so we cannot\nthoroughly comprehend her grief. Her love was complete. She had an illimitable\nlove for God and her Son but she loved the people\, too\, with a great love. What\,\nthen\, must she have felt when those same people whom she loved so dearly\, and\nwhose salvation she desired with all her being\, crucified her beloved Son? \nWe cannot fathom such things\, since there is little love in us for God and man. \nJust as the love of the Mother of God is boundless and passes our\nunderstanding\, so is her grief boundless and beyond our understanding. \nOh holy Virgin Mary\, tell us\, thy children\,\nof thy love on earth for thy Son and God.\nTell us how thy spirit rejoiced in God thy Saviour.\nTell us of how thou didst look upon His fair countenance\,\nand reflect that this was He\nWhom all the heavenly hosts wait upon in awe and love…\nTell us of thine agony\nwhen the Lord was delivered up to be crucified\,\nand lay dying on the Cross.\nTell us what joy was thine over the Resurrection… \nOnce when I was a young novice I was praying before an ikon of the Mother of\nGod\, and the Jesus Prayer entered into my heart and there began to repeat itself of\nits own accord. And another time in church I was listening to a reading from the\nprophet Isaiah and at the words\, ‘Wash you\, make you clean\,’ I reflected\, ‘Maybe the\nMother of God sinned at one time or another\, if only in thought.’ And\, marvellous to\nrelate\, in unison with my prayer a voice sounded in my heart\, saying clearly\, ‘The\nMother of God never sinned even in thought.’ Thus did the Holy Spirit bear witness\nin my heart to her purity. But during her earthly life even she was not quite perfect\nand complete – she did make some mistakes that did not involve sin. We can see\nthis from the Gospel when on the return from Jerusalem she did not know where her\nSon was\, and together with Joseph sought Him for three days… \nThe Mother of God committed to writing neither her thoughts nor her love for\nGod and her Son\, nor her soul’s suffering at the Crucifixion\, because in any case we\ncould not have understood\, for her love for God is stronger and more ardent than the\nlove of the Seraphim and Cherubim\, and all the hosts of angels and archangels\nmarvel at her. \nAnd though the life of the Mother of God is hidden\, as it were in a holy\nsilence…she embraces the whole world in this love of hers\, and in the Holy Spirit\nsees all the peoples of the earth\, and like her Son pities all men and has compassion\non them… \nAnd this most pure Mother of His\, the Lord has bestowed on us. She is our\njoy and our expectation. She is our Mother in the spirit\, and kin to us by nature\, as a\nhuman being\, and every Christian soul leaps to her in love. \nArchimandrite Sophrony. Saint Silouan the Athonite. Trans. Rosemary Edmonds. Crestwood\, NY: St\nVladimir’s Seminary Press\, 1999. 390-393
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SUMMARY:LCG Chicago Monthly Meeting 9 am CST
DESCRIPTION:Read: Story of a Soul by Therese of Lisieux \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85220595622?pwd=enM3MGpFNkZKU2daMjRITmo0N0JUUT09 \nMeeting ID: 852 2059 5622 \nPasscode: 961490 \nOne tap mobile \n+13092053325\,\,85220595622# US \n+13126266799\,\,85220595622# US (Chicago) \n 
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