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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial BVM
DESCRIPTION:THE BLESSING GIVEN TO MARY \nBy Paschasius Radbertus7 \n◊◊◊ \nThe nature and the greatness of the blessed and glorious ever-virgin Mary \nis divinely declared by the Angel\, when he says\, “Hail\, full of grace\, the Lord is \nwith you. Blessed are you among women”. For surely it was fitting that the \nVirgin should be enriched by gifts so great as to make her full of grace\, who in \nher turn was to give such gifts! For Mary has given glory to heaven\, and to the \nearth she has given the Lord. She has poured out peace upon the world\, brought \nfaith to nations\, put an end to vice\, given law to life\, and discipline to conduct. \nTruly she is “full of grace\,” because grace comes to others by measure\, but \non Mary it poured itself out all at once in all its fullness. Truly\, “full of grace”\, \nfor even though\, as we believe\, grace was in the holy patriarchs and prophets\, it \nwas not yet in its fullness. But\, in Mary? Hers was the whole fullness of that \ngrace which is in Christ\, though in a different manner than it was in him. And \nthis is why the angel says\, “Blessed are you among women\,” that is to say\, more \nblessed than all other women. Thus\, whatever curse had been incurred through \nEve was wholly taken away through the blessing given to Mary. \nIt was in praise of Mary\, as it were\, that Solomon says in the Song of \nSongs\, “Come\, my dove\, my immaculate one! For see\, the winter is past\, the \nrains are over and gone”. And then he says\, “Come from Lebanon\, come and \nbe crowned!”. Not without reason is Mary bidden to come from Lebanon\, for \n“Lebanon” means “shining whiteness.” Mary was dazzling white with her many \nvirtues and merits\, and\, by the gifts of the Holy Spirit\, she became whiter than \nsnow itself\, showing in all things the simplicity of the dove. For everything about \nMary is wholly the work of purity and simplicity\, wholly grace and truth\, wholly \nmercy and that justice which has looked down from heaven. She is\, then\, \nimmaculate\, because corruption has had no part in her. She has encompassed \na man in her womb\, as the holy Jeremiah testifies\, and received him from no \nother person. “The Lord\,” he says\, “has made a new thing upon the earth\, and \na woman shall encompass a man”. \nTruly this was a new thing\, an act of power new in a surpassing degree\, \nwhen God\, whom the world cannot contain nor man see and live\, entered the \nguest chamber of Mary’s womb in such a way as not to know confinement within \nher body\, was so borne that the whole God was within her\, came forth in such a \nway that\, as Ezekiel prophesied\, the door remained closed. \nThis is why the same Song of Songs sings of her\, “An enclosed garden\, a \nfountain sealed\, your plants are a paradise”. Truly a garden of delights\, \nplanted with all kinds of flowers and filled with the perfumes of all virtues; so \nenclosed as to have known no violation\, no corruption by deceit or wile; a \nfountain sealed\, therefore\, with the seal of the whole Trinity. \n  \n7 Ps.-Jerome\, Ep. 9.5\, 9 (PL 30.126-127\, 131-132). Translation by the Cistercian Lectionary Project (1968)\, 10*-ll*.15 \n  \n 
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