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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of BVM
DESCRIPTION:THE SILENCE OF MARY \nBy Adrienne von Speyr1 \n◊◊◊ \nA life of faith is a life of silence. Mary’s existence as Mother is hidden in \na great silence. All around and about her is silence. People knew nothing of her \nreal life\, of the mysteries of her virginity. Not even Joseph understood her. An \nangel had to enlighten him about her mystery. The silence that surrounds her \nis simply a reflection of her own silence. She did not become a subject of \nconversation\, because she did not talk about herself. And in that way she \nsafeguarded her secret. Later\, too\, when the Son appeared in public\, she \nremained silent because it was not her task or mission to speak. But in her \nsilence she participates in the dialogue between Father and Son which is the \nvery substance of prayer. She remained silent out of respect\, and in order not \nto drown the word of God with her own words. \nHer silence also manifests her activity and her passivity\, her strength and \nher weakness. Her activity and strength consist in her self-control\, her \nweakness and passivity in allowing herself to be led. She is simply and solely \nthe instrument of God. Strength and weakness\, doing and suffering\, all the \ntensions and stresses of life meet and join in her without occasioning the \npredominance of any one in particular. The priority is always decreed by the \nneed of her mission. She did not cultivate\, tend or encourage her good qualities \nfor their goodness’ sake (in the way that people do when they are conscious of \ntheir own gentleness and are disposed to go further in the same direction). She \ndid not practice her virtues with a definite end in view; on the contrary\, she \nquite simply allowed God to decide everything\, to decree everything in \naccordance with her mission — and this is where her silence is so profound– \nwithout losing or giving up any of her complementary qualities. In her\, silence \nis both complete self-renunciation and complete indifference.14 \nAll this co-exists in her with a perseverance that knows no limits\, because \nher mission flows on accompanied by a parallel discretion that disturbs nothing. \nAll her qualities participate to some extent in the glory of her conversation with \nthe Angel: each decision is taken in the solitude and isolation imposed by the \nrelation of her soul to God. Discretion\, in this instance\, is but another name for \nhumility that asks no questions and never raises the dust. She asked the Angel \nof God one simple factual question\, and with that she became the answer to all \nthat God expected. Her life is therefore community in the Lord\, solitude in God\, \nand this communal solitude is called prayer.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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