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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of the BVM
DESCRIPTION:SHE HEARD THE WORD OF GOD \nAND KEPT IT \nBy Fr Hans Urs von Balthasar \n◊◊◊ \nMary is a “prototype of the church\,” and this for two reasons: she is the \nplace of the real and bodily indwelling of the Word in the most intimate union of \nMother and Child sharing the same flesh; and\, in the spiritual sphere\, she is – \nand to this the former is due – a servant\, in her entire person\, body and soul\, one \nwho knows no law of her own\, but only conformity to the Word of God. Because \nshe was a virgin\, which means a pure\, exclusive hearer of the word\, she became \nmother\, the place of the incarnation of the Word. Her womb was blessed\, only \nbecause she “heard the word of God and kept it”\, because she “kept all these \nwords and pondered them in her heart”. She is the model which should govern \ncontemplation\, if it is to keep clear of two dangers: one\, that of seeing the word \nonly as something external\, instead of the profoundest mystery within our own \nbeing\, that in which we live\, move and are: the other\, that of regarding the word \nas so interior to us that we confuse it with our own being\, with a natural wisdom \ngiven us once and for all\, and ours to use as we will…. \nThe hearer par excellence is the virgin who became pregnant with the \nWord\, and bore him as her own and the Father’s son. She herself\, even when \nmother\, remained a servant; the Father alone is the Master\, together with the \nSon\, who is her life and who molds her life. She lives wholly for the fruit of her \nwomb. Even after she has given him birth\, she continues to carry him within \nher; she only needs to look into her heart to find him. But she does not omit\, on \nthat account\, to turn her gaze uninterruptedly upon the child growing up by her \nside\, upon the youth and the man\, whose ideas and actions seem to her ever \nmore unpredictable and astonishing. \nMore and more she “understood not” what he meant – when he stayed \nbehind in the Temple without telling her\, when he failed to receive her\, when\, in \nhis public life\, he concealed his power and spent himself in vain and\, in the end\, \ndetached himself from her as she stood at the foot of the cross\, substituting for \nhimself a stranger\, John\, to be her son. With all the force of her body\, she obeys \nthe word that resounds ever more strongly and divinely but seems more and \nmore alien and almost tears her asunder\, although\, in spite of all\, she has given \nherself to it wholly and radically in advance. She lets herself be led whither she \n“knows not”; so far is the word she follows from being her own wisdom. Yet she \nis wholly in accord with its leading\, so surely is the word she loves “engrafted” in \nher heart.
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