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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of the BVM
DESCRIPTION:THE CHRISTIAN \nPAR EXCELLENCE \nBy Fr Émile Mersch \n◊◊◊ \nThe final step in the long preparation for Christ is His mother. We cannot \nsay anything more glorious or more beautiful about her than that\, as the mother \nof Jesus Christ\, she is inseparable from Christ and from all that is Christ… \nThe other saints have particular kinds of holiness exclusive of one \nanother. Their sanctity is that of members. The foot is not the hand\, and the ear \nis not the eye; St Benedict Labre is quite different from St Francis de Sales\, and \nSt Peter Damien is different from St Theresa of Lisieux. But Mary\, who is holy in \nher capacity as the mother of Christ\, possesses all holiness: the unblemished \nsplendor of the woman clad with the sun is in striking fashion the splendor of \nthe sun itself. \nThis holiness partakes of all the matchless perfections of Christ. Its \nexcellence\, which consists in uniting Christ to all humankind\, makes of it a \nholiness of union with all; it is a common and everyday holiness\, an imitable and \napproachable holiness\, because it is pure holiness. \nThere is nothing extraordinary in Mary’s life\, nothing to excite wonder. As \nJesus was quite simply a man who did not exalt Himself above His station and \ndid not harden Himself against pain or despise the slight value to be found in us\, \nso she was simply His mother\, the woman whose Son is Jesus. \nAll the facts at the disposal of Christian piety show her living\, in faith\, \nhope\, and charity\, the life that God appointed for her. She does not hesitate to \nask herself exactly what the future will bring\, but at the same time she always \nand in everything sees\, loves\, and carries out fully the will of God. She grasps\, as \na mother can\, with an intuition born of love\, which is adequate but may remain \nindistinct\, what her Son is and what mission He came to accomplish. She \naccepts and wishes what he wishes\, and with all her heart allows her consent to \nbe fixed and carried out in His. Because of this unique excellence of hers she is \nthe Christian par excellence; and that is exactly what she ought to be.
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