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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading  - Memorial of BVM
DESCRIPTION:MARY AND THE MYSTERY OF \nCHRISTIAN FREEDOM \nFrom “The Handmaid of the Lord” by Adrienne von Speyr1 \n◊◊◊ \nFrom the moment Mary said Yes and gave her consent\, her whole life has \nthe conscious and explicit form of assent\, upon which everything depends. This \nperfect assent is the giving of human freedom to God\, final and so complete that \nby virtue of the humble and confident gift of our freedom and our life\, God owns \neverything from then on and can therefore “whether gradually or all at once” \nuse\, transform or reform all that we have deposited with him. The life of faith\, \nlove and hope\, the Christian life\, is turned towards this form\, so that everything \nwe have may be deposited without hesitation in the hands of Providence… \nMary’s assent was assent of that kind from the beginning. \nMary’s freedom\, like all forms of freedom\, is indivisible\, as may be seen \nfrom her word of assent. She bound herself to God by a single\, completely free \nact leading into perfect freedom. With that act Mary enters the Christian life for \nthe first time\, and in its most perfect form. And since she gave her assent to all \nthat was to come\, she gave her assent to Christianity and all it concealed\, all that \nwas new\, unexpected and beyond expectation. In doing so she gave Christian \nassent its form\, its perfect and essential form: complete self-surrender. \nIn a certain sense one might say that Mary’s assent is a vow of obedience\, \nof chastity and of poverty. Its single renunciation contains a threefold \nrenunciation. For by her one word of assent the Mother of God divested herself \nof everything for God’s sake and for humanity’s sake. Her assent and her \nobedience coincide; choosing assent she chose obedience as her form of life. \nAnd by the same token renounced all claim to her body. Like everything else she \ngave it to God\, and could no longer dispose of it herself or give it to man. She15 \ncould not have served God completely with her body had she not placed \neverything unreservedly at her service. Her task demanded everything she \npossessed\, as the completeness of her assent required it. \nAs little as it is possible to do penance inwardly while living a life of ease\, \nso it is impossible to give up everything inwardly without giving up the outward \nas well. There is a unity in the offer on God’s side and a unity in the answer on \nthe human side\, and that unity constitutes assent. \nAssent is essentially grace: a grace that\, like all grace\, comes from God\, \nworking itself out in human nature and its mission\, with the possibility of \nreturning to God as our answer\, enveloped in the all-embracing mission of the \nSon who received the power to come on earth as a human being\, through the \nassent of a human being. All Christian assent participates in the same essence\, \nand Mary’s assent is the pattern and definition\, indeed the font and origin of \nevery subsequent Christian assent\, because the mystical marriage\, the eternal \nbond between our human assent and God’s assent was made manifest\, for the \nfirst time\, through her. The fruit of that union is the Savior of the world. Though \nthe Mother of God did not say Yes without the Son’s grace\, the Son did not \nbecome man without his Mother’s assent.
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