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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of BVM
DESCRIPTION:MARY IS IN SILENCE \nBy Pierre de Bérulle1 \n◊◊◊ \nIt falls to the Virgin to keep silence. It is her condition\, her road\, her life. \nHer life is a life of silence\, which adores the eternal Word. Seeing before her \neyes\, at her breast\, in her arms\, this same Word\, the substantial Word of the \nFather\, to be dumb and reduced to silence by the condition of his childhood\, she \nenters again into a new silence and is transformed by it after the example of the \nincarnate Word who is her Son\, her God and her sole love. And in that way her \nlife goes on\, from silence to silence\, from a silence of adoration to a silence of \ntransformation. \nMary is in silence\, enraptured by the silence of her Son Jesus. One of the \nsacred and divine effects of the silence of Jesus is to put the most holy Mother \nof Jesus into a life of silence: a silence that is humble\, profound\, and that adores \nthe incarnate Wisdom with more holiness and eloquence than the words of \neither angels or humans. This silence on the part of the Virgin is not a silence of \none who hesitates in speech or of one who is helpless: it is a silence more \neloquent\, in its praise of Jesus\, than eloquence itself. And so it is marvelous to \nsee that\, in this condition of the silence and the childhood of Jesus\, everyone \nspeaks and Mary says nothing at all: the silence of Jesus has more power to hold \nher in sacred silence than the words of either angels or saints have the power to \nbring her in and make her speak of things so worthy of praise\, things that \nheaven and earth are at one in celebrating and adoring. \nThe angels speak of these things among themselves and to the shepherds\, \nand Mary is in silence. The shepherds hurry away and speak\, and Mary is in \nsilence. The kings arrive and speak\, and make the whole city\, the whole state\, \nall the sacred synod of Judea\, speak: and Mary has withdrawn and is in silence.15 \nThe whole state is moved\, and everyone is astonished and speaks of the new \nking sought by the kings\, and Mary is in her repose and holy silence. Simeon \nspeaks in the temple\, and Anna the prophetess\, and all those who await the \nsalvation of Israel: and Mary offers\, gives\, receives and brings back her Son in \nsilence; so powerful and secretly impressive is the silence of Jesus on the spirit \nand heart of the Virgin\, keeping her powerfully and divinely occupied and \nenraptured in silence. For\, again\, during the time of his childhood\, we have \nnothing but these words which have been brought to us about the conduct of \nthe Virgin and about her holiness in regard to her Son and to the things which \nare reported of him and accomplished in him: “But Mary kept all these things\, \npondering them in her heart”. There we see the condition and occupation of the \nVirgin\, there are her daily duties and her life in regard to Jesus during his holy \nchildhood
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