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SUMMARY:Presentation of the BVM
DESCRIPTION:THE VIRGIN AND THE TEMPLE\nFrom the writing of Fr Yves Congar 3\n◊◊◊\nThe only occasion on which the Gospels expressly mention the Virgin Mary\nin connection with the Temple are in the account of her Purification and of the\nPresentation of Jesus in the Temple and the finding of the child Jesus in the Temple\nafter four days’ absence on his part and three anxious searching by his parents. To\nthese very brief indications\, the piety of Christians very soon added the idea of the\npresentation of Mary in the Temple at the age of three to be consecrated to the\nservice of God. We are dealing here with a symbolical representation of a\nprofound spiritual reality about which the tradition and the doctrine of the Church\nprovide us with valid information. Mary\, predestined to be the Mother of Jesus\,\ntrue God and true man\, and to be worthy of her vocation\, was prepared by the gift\nof exceptional graces and lived with unfailing fidelity a most pure life of inner\nconsecration to the God of Abraham\, Isaac and Jacob. As the type of all faithful\nsouls and of the Church herself\, Mary expressed spiritually and supremely in her\nlife the “presentation” which\, for each one of us\, is to begin by the service of faith\nand to be consummated in heaven. \nIt is obvious that the tradition and doctrine of the Church may\, without\nfalling prey to the imaginary productions of the apocrypha\, propound statements\nconcerning the status of the Mother of God in relation either to the Jewish\nmessianic temple going far beyond what we are explicitly told in the three short\npassages from the Gospel which narrate the incidents mentioned above. If Mary\nis the Mother of God\, she has a special relation to the body of Christ which is the\ntrue temple — to his physical body and doubtless also\, in a certain sense\, to his\nbody the Church. She is herself a temple of God in a quite specific and sublime\nway\, both because Christ was within her from the moment of his conception until\nthat of his birth\, and because of the exceptional spiritual gifts she received in\npreparation for her divine motherhood and as a reward for her free acceptance of\nthis vocation\, not only after the Annunciation but during the whole of her life.\nHence the liturgy — the Oriental liturgy in particular — shows a profound\nunderstanding of the mystery of Mary when it constantly uses the texts concerning\nthe Temple and the tabernacle in order to express it. \n3 The Mystery of the Temple\,Westminster(Maryland) 1962\, p.254-255.
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