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SUMMARY:Vigils: Memorial of the BVM
DESCRIPTION:MARY AND THE RETURN OF THE LORD\nFrom a book by René Laurentin 6\n◊◊◊\nIt is of the essence of the Christian message that we shall turn our gaze to\nthe future\, to the completion and consummation of all things which the Lord’s\nreturn will bring about. \nAt that time (already present in the eternity of God)\, the frontiers between\nthe earthly and the heavenly are abolished. The corporal world is transfigured\,\nGod is all in all. Time\, too\, is abolished for the Church. This fragmentary\nduration of time\, linked up with humanity’s advance along the road to their\nsalvation\, gives place to the infinitely simple rhythm of eternity: the rhythm of\nGod which gathers together every duration of time and heaps up every hope.\nHere the task of Mary\, as mother\, comes to an end\, but her love remains. For\nher\, at the heart of things\, nothing changes. It is the Church which changes\,\nand only for the reason that its situation is modified. \nFrom the outset Mary had preceded the Church at every stage of its life\,\nand here we see the Church joining her once more. Between them there is no\nlonger any difference in the realm of place and time. The tension of nature over\nagainst heaven\, of time over against eternity\, has been abolished. At the end of\nthe journey\, there they are\, perfectly reunited in the place and at the time of\nwhich God is the measure… \nMary was the first personal realization of what awaits the redeemed. She\nis that still\, but the distances have been done away with. \nThe Church continues to look at Mary in Christ\, but in a different way: no\nlonger as its future and as a token of its hope\, but only as the summit of its\ncommunion in Christ. The Church used to look at Mary [in the same way] as a\nfleet in the storm looks at the first ship which has crossed the bar and reached\nport. Now\, the Church has re-joined her at the end of the voyage. There is no\nlonger either separation or distance\, but common joy in reunion in Christ\, and\nthis dialogue between them is nothing but the overflowing abundance of their\nthanksgiving. \nIn this communion\, of which Christ is the beginning and the completion\,\nwe see again the situation of Pentecost: Mary in the Church\, but beyond this\nworld. In the city that is all light\, the grandeur of Mary is no longer veiled by\nany kind of shadow. The hierarchy\, which was the visible summit of the Church\nhere below\, no longer has any purpose. The world of the signs and means of\ngrace which it administered in this lower world has passed away\, and only the\nrealities remain. The grandeurs of hierarchy are effaced\, and the grandeurs of\nholiness\, at last unveiled\, shine forth in all their glory. In the crowd of the\nredeemed\, ranged henceforth according to their union with Christ and no\nlonger according to their function\, the Mother of Christ occupies the first place\,\nwithout common measure with the others. She is seen in the pure truth of the\nsituation in which God has placed her\, at a higher level of grace and glory than\nthat of the others: between the Redeemer who reigns over her from the\ninfinitude of his Godhead and the remainder of the redeemed whom she enfolds\nin her maternal love. \n6 Court traité sur la Vierge Marie\, Lethielleux\, Paris\, 1967\, pp. 156-157; reprinted in ALectures chrétiennes pour notre\ntemps@ (M 82): 8 1971\, Abbaye d’Orval\, Belgium.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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