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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of BVM
DESCRIPTION:MARY\, THE MOTHER OF JESUS \nBy St Thérèse of Lisieux \n◊◊◊ \nIn speaking of our Lady\, we ought not to make improbable assertions \nabout matters that are beyond our knowledge\, for example\, that when she \nwas a small child she went up to the Temple to offer herself to God with \nextraordinary fervor and a heart on fire with love. For all we know\, she went \nsimply in obedience to her parents. \nIf a sermon on the Blessed Virgin is to bear fruit\, it must describe her \nreal life\, such as the Gospel gives us a glimpse of\, and not her fancied life. \nAnd we perceive clearly that her real life at Nazareth and later on must have \nbeen quite ordinary…”He was subject to them”. How simple it all is! \nSometimes the Blessed Virgin is represented as being quite \nunapproachable. Instead\, we ought to show that she was imitable in her \npractice of hidden virtues; we ought to point out that she lived a life of faith\, \njust as we do. \nWe know well that the Blessed Virgin is queen of heaven and earth; but \nshe is more of a mother than a queen\, and we ought not to give out the idea\, \nas I have heard it done more than once\, that because of her prerogatives she \neclipses the glory of all the saints\, just as the sun\, rising in brilliance\, makes \nthe stars disappear. My God\, what a strange thing to say! A mother who \nmakes the glory of her children disappear! For my part\, I believe just the \nopposite; I think that she will greatly increase the splendor of the elect. \nWe do well to speak of her prerogatives. But we should not stop there. \nWe should make her loved. If\, when we hear a sermon on the Blessed Virgin\, \nthe preacher tries to do nothing from beginning to end but call forth our \nadmiration\, we become bored\, and that does not lead to love and imitation. \nWho knows but what some souls will not experience a certain sense of \nestrangement from a creature so lofty?
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