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SUMMARY:Immaculate Heart of Mary
DESCRIPTION:THE VIRGIN KEPT ALL THESE THINGS IN HER HEART\nBy St Elizabeth of the Trinity 7\n◊◊◊\n“Those whom God has foreknown He has also predestined to become\nconformed to the image of His divine Son\,” the One crucified by love…No one has\npenetrated the depths of the mystery of Christ except the Blessed Virgin.” John\nand Mary Magdalene penetrated deeply this mystery; St. Paul often speaks of\n“the understanding of it which was given to him”; and yet\, how all the saints\nremain in the shadows when we look at the Blessed Virgin’s light!\nThis is the unspeakable “secret” that she kept in mind and pondered in her\nheart” which no tongue can tell or pen describe! This Mother of grace will form\nmy soul so that her little child will be a living\, “striking” image of her first-born\,\nthe Son of the Eternal\, He who was the perfect praise of His Father’s glory…\nShe responded fully to the divine election of which the Apostle speaks; she\nwas always “pure\, immaculate\, and without reproach” in the eyes of the thriceholy God. Her soul is so simple. Its movements are so profound that they cannot\nbe detected. She seems to reproduce on earth the life which is that of the divine\nBeing\, the simple Being. And she is so transparent\, so luminous that one would\nmistake her for the light\, yet she is but the “mirror” of the Sun of Justice…\n“The Virgin kept all these things in her heart”: her whole history can be\nsummed up in these few words! It was within her heart that she lived\, and at\nsuch a depth that no human eye can follow her. When I read in the Gospel “that\nMary went in haste to the hill country of Judea” to perform her loving service for\nher cousin Elizabeth\, I imagine her passing by so beautiful\, so calm and so\nmajestic\, so absorbed in recollection of the Word of God within her. Like Him\,\nher prayer was always this: “Ecce\, here I am!”… “The servant of the Lord\,” the\nlowliest of His creatures: she\, His Mother! Her humility was so real for she was\nalways forgetful\, unaware\, freed from self. And she could sing: “The Almighty\nhas done great things for me\, henceforth all peoples will call me blessed.”\nThis Queen of virgins is also Queen of martyrs; but again it was in her heart\nthat the sword pierced\,” for with her everything took place within!… Oh! How\nbeautiful she is to contemplate during her long martyrdom\, so serene\, enveloped\nin a kind of majesty that radiates both strength and gentleness… She learned\nfrom the Word Himself how those must suffer whom the Father has chosen as\nvictims\, those whom He has decided to associate with Himself in the great work\nof redemption\, those whom He “has foreknown and predestined to be conformed\nto His Christ\,” crucified by love.\nShe is there at the foot of the Cross\, standing\, full of strength and courage\,\nand here My Master says to me: “Behold your mother”. He gives her to me for my\nMother… And now that He has returned to the Father and has substituted me for\nHimself on the Cross so that “I may suffer in my body what is lacking in His\npassion for the sake of His body\, which is the Church\,” the Blessed Virgin is again\nthere to teach me to suffer as He did\, to tell me\, to make me hear those last songs\nof His soul which no one else but she\, His Mother\, could overhear. \n7 St Elizabeth of the Trinity. I have Found God: Complete Works – Volume 1. Trans. Sister Aletheia\nKane\, O.C.D. Washington: ICS Publications\, 1984. 141\, 160-161.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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