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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of BVM
DESCRIPTION:MARY AND GOD’S REDEMPTIVE PLAN \nFrom “Seasons of Celebration” by Thomas Merton7 \n◊◊◊ \nIn Mary is perfectly realized God’s whole creative and redemptive plan. \nThat is why she is said to be for us a light of truth and a pattern of life. That is \nwhy her spiritual beauty includes in itself all the beauty which we see here and \nthere\, in partial and incomplete form\, in the universe. In her is all the beauty of \nthe world\, transfigured and elevated to a level beyond our comprehension: and \nyet since that perfection was reached by the fulfillment of the obediential \npotency in her nature\, which is also our nature\, there is a certain connaturality \nin us which makes us respond to her transcendent radiance even though it \nremains obscure to us. We cannot help but see that she is\, like ourselves\, a \nhuman creature whose littleness has been glorified in the light of Christ and \nwho has been saved from the power of darkness and evil by the grace of His \ncross. \nIt remains then for us to celebrate her immaculate beauty\, to open our \nhearts to the same light of truth which sanctified her\, the same grace which \nmade her pleasing to the Most High\, Who is her creator as He is ours\, and who \nwishes to see realized in us the same ineffable mystery of light. More than that\, \nHe wishes to see the whole world saved and transfigured in that light\, by reason \nof our perfect acceptance of His gift\, His love\, and His grace\, and our \ntransmission of the power of His love to all people and to all other beings by our \nwork\, our prayers and our love. \n  \n7 New York\, 1965\, pp. 169-170.
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