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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of BVM
DESCRIPTION:A reading from “Mary\, the Mother of the Lord” by \nFR KARL RAHNER \n◊◊◊ \nAll that the faith says about the realization of redemption\, about salvation \nand grace and the fullness of grace\, is realized in Mary. This human person \nwhom we call Mary is as it were the very point in the whole history of our \nredemption at which the saving grace of the living God descends from him into \nthis history\, and from which it is diffused over the whole of humankind. For her \nSon\, whom she accepted in the strength of her heart\, whom she conceived in \nfaith and love\, is the Redeemer of the world. \nAnd since\, as Scripture testifies\, the consent she gave in faith and \nobedience belongs not only to her private life-story\, but to the public history of \nredemption\, it must correspond\, in harmony of person and function\, to the \npurpose for which it was given; in short it must be perfect. \nIt follows too that Mary is one of us. We honor her\, praise her\, love and \nrevere her unique dignity. But if\, in view of the mystery of her son\, we ask\, where \ndoes Mary stand? We must reply\, she belongs entirely with us. She must receive \nGod’s mercy just as we must\, for she lives and typifies to perfection what we \nourselves are to be in Christ’s sight. We too are to become what she is. She comes \nbefore God with us – like us and as one of our company – in the innumerable \nhost of humanity. \nIn our midst\, within the history of humankind as a whole\, as a part of it\, \nshe accomplishes her own life-story\, which takes on a unique importance for \nour salvation\, and which\, once lived through with this significance\, endures \neternally in God’s sight. Precisely because Mary\, in this position as \nintermediary\, is entirely one of us\, and only occupies that position because she \nbelongs with us\, as a mere creature\, to the one human family\, is she so near and \ndear to us. That is why we love her. And have an almost too merely human trust \nin her. And feel her intercession\, protection and love to be so near and human\, \nalthough\, or rather because this dear and familiar humanity has been taken up\, \nunimpaired and transfigured\, into the eternal life of God himself.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-memorial-of-bvm-22/
CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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