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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of the BVM
DESCRIPTION:A reading from “The Seat of Wisdom” by \nFR LOUIS BOUYER \n◊◊◊ \nVirginity consecrated to God in Christ has its justification in that it is a \nmeans for engendering offspring without number; and therein lies the real \nnature of its sacrifice. This is the supreme truth revealed to us by Mary’s virginal \nmotherhood\, and\, at the same time\, its supreme justification. By her \nrenunciation in a spirit of perfect faith\, of the very possibility of generation on \nthe earthly plane\, that of the first creation\, she lent herself to be used to generate \nthe human body of the Son of God. \nAnd\, since he is\, in himself\, not only the origin but the whole of the new \ncreation\, she also brought this to birth in bearing him. The sacrifice inherent in \nher chosen virginity was fulfilled in that the “Holy One” born of her was the Son \nof God\, since this made him\, the fruit of her own life\, the absolute Stranger to \nher. though belonging wholly to her as to no one else\, Christ could not but be the \none who was apart form her from the very moment of his birth\, more so than \nany other child from its parents. At the same time\, her virginity was justified in \nthat it made a birth of the kind possible. And all the hopes of renewal that this \nbirth held out to mankind\, in the state it then was in\, justified the seeming \nrefusal of human love by the one most worthy of loving and being loved that had \nbeen seen on earth since Eve. \nThe counterpart of this is that it is by their participation in Mary’s destiny \nthat\, henceforth\, those vowed to virginity will see and fulfill the purpose of their \nown sacrifice. They renounce all possibility of prolonging and continuing the \npresent order of creation in order to dedicate themselves wholly to engendering \nthe new order which is to redeem the old. Such entire devotion to bringing about \nthe new birth of a humanity regenerated in Christ makes of their virginity\, not a \nnegation of love\, but an act of love of the most exalted kind.
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