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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Mary Mother of the Church
DESCRIPTION:MARY’S EDUCATION AS MOTHER OF THE CHURCH \nFrom the writing of Hans Urs von Balthasar2 \n◊◊◊ \nAt first it was the Mother who introduced the Son into the Old Covenant \nand thereby trained him for his messianic office. However\, it was not she but \nhis own knowledge of the Father’s mission in the Holy Spirit that showed him \nwho he was and what he had to do. The relationship is thus reversed: from now \non it is the Son who educates the Mother for the greatness of his task\, cultivating \nin her the maturity she needs to stand under the Cross and\, finally\, to receive\, \nat prayer within the Church\, the universal gift of the Holy Spirit. \nFrom the very outset\, this education reflects Simeon’s prophecy that a \nsword would pierce the Mother’s soul. It is a pitiless process. All the episodes \nhanded down for us are more or less brusque rejections. It is not as though \nJesus had been disobedient for thirty years; we have an explicit affirmation to \nthe contrary. However\, the merely physical relationship to which faith was so \nintimately tied in the Old Testament is sovereignly\, ruthlessly forced open. \nHenceforth faith in Jesus\, the incarnate Word of God\, is the only thing that \ncounts… \nThe scene in which Jesus\, teaching those gathered around him in a certain \nhouse\, refuses to receive the visit of his Mother\, who is standing outside\, seems \nalmost unbearable to us. “Here are my mother and my brethren! Whoever does \nthe will of God is my brother\, and sister\, and mother”. Jesus means her more \nthan anyone\, though he does not mention her by name. Yet who understands \nhis meaning? Did Mary herself understand it? We have to accompany Mary in \nspirit as she makes her way home and try to imagine her state of mind. The \n2 Hans Urs Von Balthasar and Pope Benedict XVI. Mary: The Church at the Source. Trans. Adrian \nWalker. San Francisco: Ignatius Press\, 2005. 107-110.5 \nsword gnaws at her soul; she feels as if bereft of her inmost self\, as if the point \nof her life has been drained away. Her faith\, which at the beginning received so \nmany sensible confirmations\, is plunged into a dark night. It is as if the Son\, \nwho sends her no news about what he is doing\, has run away from her\, yet she \ncannot simply let him go away: she has to accompany him\, full of dread\, in her \nnight of faith… \nThe purpose of this constant training in the naked faith Mary will need \nunder the Cross is often insufficiently understood; people are astonished and \nembarrassed by the way in which Jesus treats his Mother\, whom he addresses \nboth in Cana and at the Cross only as “woman”. He himself is the first one to \nwield the sword that must pierce her. But how else would she have become \nready to stand by the Cross\, where not only her Son’s earthly failure\, but also \nhis abandonment by the God who sends him is revealed. She must finally say \nYes to this\, too\, because she consented a priori to her child’s whole destiny. And \nas if to fill her bitter chalice to the brim\, the dying Son expressly abandons his \nMother\, withdrawing from her and foisting on her another son: “Woman\, \nbehold\, your son”. This gesture is usually understood primarily as evidencing \nJesus’ concern about where his Mother will live after he is gone… This must not\, \nhowever\, lead us to overlook a second motif: just as the Son is abandoned by \nthe Father\, so\, too\, he abandons his Mother\, so that the two of them may be \nunited in a common abandonment. Only thus does she become inwardly ready \nto take on ecclesial motherhood toward all of Jesus’ new brothers and sisters.
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