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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of BVM
DESCRIPTION:MARY’S POETIC SENSIBILITY \nBy Émile Mersch1 \n◊◊◊ \nThe Magnificat is Mary’s own song\, and when she composed it\, Jesus \nwas not even born. Yet he made his presence felt to John the Baptist\, and more \nso to her. In Mary’s song\, his thoughts are uttered: the greatness of the humble\, \nthe blessings promised to the lowly\, the reversal of values effected by the Lord \nin exalting the poor and rejecting the proud\, the joy of those whom the world \nignores and who have the Lord with them; everything that the song proclaims \nis the same as the teaching promulgated in the Beatitudes and the Sermon on \nthe Mount. The very prelude expresses the tone and accent characteristic of the \npreaching of Jesus; the mother’s song foreshadows the hymn of thanksgiving \nuttered by the Son in the presence of God who showers the lowly and humble \nwith favors. At that time Jesus answered and said: ‘I thank you\, Father\, Lord \nof heaven and earth\, because you have hid these things from the wise and \nprudent and have revealed them to little ones. Yes\, Father\, for so it has seemed \ngood in your sight’. \nAs we hear Christ in his mother\, we also hear in her the entire Old \nTestament\, which is a prefigure of Christ. The Magnificat is almost wholly made \nup of biblical quotations. The mother of the Savior\, of the Desired One of Israel\, \nspeaks as the daughter\, or rather the queen\, of the patriarchs and prophets. And \nthis double relation with her Son\, who is everything for humanity\, depicts her \nso well that the Magnificat\, echo of the Old Testament and prelude to the New \nTestament\, is a very personal\, unified and spontaneous composition\, as well as \na prayer that was to become familiar to the Christian people. \nMary must have possessed a flair for poetry\, just as Jesus did. Jesus had \nthis gift of universal sympathy\, this promptness of responding to a contact with15 \nanything\, this facility and sincerity of wonder. We have but to recall\, for \nexample\, his reverential and moving words about the flowers of the fields. I tell \nyou that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these. And if \nGod so clothes the grass of the field\, which grows today and is thrown into the \noven tomorrow\, will he not much more provide for you\, O you of little faith? \n‘God so clothes’: we can see our Lord bending over these humble marvels\, \njoyful and proud to be a man in the human universe of his Father’s creation. We \nmay well believe that Jesus wished to receive this very human gift from his \nmother\, just as he received his human nature from her. She must have \npossessed it before him. The proofs that she did are\, among others\, the special \nturn of poetry\, delicacy and taste found in the first chapters of St. Luke\, in which \nher influence stands out so clearly… The abundance of poetic bits occurring in \nthese chapters\, and only in them\, all have to do with her. But the Magnificat \nremains the clearest proof.
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