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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Queenship of Mary
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nST BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX \n◊◊◊ \nIt is the time for all flesh to speak when the Mother of the Incarnate Word \nis taken up into heaven\, nor ought human mortality cease to give praise when \nthe nature of man is in the Virgin exalted above the immortal spirits. But neither \ndoes our devotion allow us to be silent\, nor can our sterile thought conceive\, nor \nour unlearned speech give forth\, anything worthy concerning her glory. Hence it \nis that those princes of the heavenly court in the consideration of such an \nunheard-of thing cry out with admiration: “Who is she who ascends from the \ndesert abounding with delights?” \nAs though they said more manifestly: “How great is she\, or whence is she\, \nascending indeed from the desert\, so abounding in delights?” For delights are \nnot found equal in us whom the impetus of the river rejoices in the City of the \nLord\, who are given to drink by the countenance of your glory from the torrent \nof pleasure. Who is she who ascends from under the sun\, where there is nothing \nbut suffering and sadness and affliction of spirit\, abounding in spiritual \ndelights? Why should I not call delights the glory of virginity with the gift of \nfecundity\, and ensign of humility distilling the honeycomb of charity\, the \nbowels of mercy\, the plenitude of grace\, the prerogative of a singular glory? \nAscending\, therefore\, from the desert the Queen of the world\, as the \nChurch sings\, was made beautiful even to the holy angels and sweet in her \ndelights. But let them cease to wonder at the delights of this desert\, for the Lord \nhas given goodness and our earth has yielded its fruit. Why do they wonder that \nMary ascends from the desert of the earth abounding with delights? Let them \nwonder rather at Christ\, being poor\, descending from the plenitude of the \nheavenly Kingdom\, for it seems by far a greater miracle that the Son of God \ndeigned to be made a little less than the angels than that the Mother of God \nshould be exalted above the angels. Indeed\, his humiliation has been made our \nexaltation; his miseries are the delights of the world. Finally\, being rich\, he was \nmade poor on account of us\, that he might enrich us by his poverty.
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