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SUMMARY:Blessed Guerric of Igny
DESCRIPTION:ALL GENERATIONS WILL CALL HER BLESSED\nFrom a sermon by Blessed Guerric of Igny 7\n◊◊◊ \n“Mary has chosen the best part.” This was said of Mary\, the sister of\nMartha\, but it was realized… with greater fullness and holiness in Mary\, Mother of\nthe Lord. For… the blessed Virgin Mary chose the best part; or rather she entered…\ninto unending possession of what she had chosen long before: to keep close to the\nLord\, to be inseparable from him\, and to enjoy God’s Word for all eternity. \nAfter her Son ascended to where he was before\, the mother\, released from\nall temporal anxiety and more fully enlightened by the Holy Spirit\, rejoiced to be\nstill and see that Jesus is God. A vision of wholly ineffable joy and supreme delight\nfor all who love Jesus\, but before all others for her who gave birth to Jesus. As the\ngrace of giving birth to God was conferred on her apart from all others\, so was the\nprivilege of glorying in him to whom she gave birth. Altogether her own and\nwithout comparison was the glory of the Virgin Mother\, to see God the King of all\nin the diadem of the flesh with which she crowned him\, so as to recognize God and\nadore him in her own body and see her own body glorified in God. These are the\ntruths which in the meantime Mary rejoiced to contemplate\, this is the best part\nwhich she has chosen\, which… has not been taken away from her but brought to\nperfection in her. For since she was not careless or remiss in Martha’s work she\nhas not been left without Mary’s fruit. Toil is in action\, fruit or reward in\ncontemplation. \nWe say these things to you\, brethren\, so that if you feel a desire for that best\npart which is praised in Mary\, you may know that it is the reward of the one who\ncannot be reproached for failing to do Martha’s part: it is not right that reward\nshould be sought before merit. It behooves Jacob first to be united with Leah\nbefore enjoying Rachel’s embraces; and he himself has to be called and to be Jacob\nbefore becoming Israel. “If they will make you master of the feast\,” says the Wise\nMan\, “make good provision for the guests\, and so take your place among them; your\nduty done\, recline at ease and rejoice on their account and receive the crown that\nmarks their favor.” The toil involved in work or the anxieties of administration are\nseeds of justice\, through which joys are to be reaped from the fruit of consoling\nmercy. For so the Prophet says: “Sow for yourselves in justice\, reap from the fruit of\nmercy”. But one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and one who sows\nwith a blessing will also reap with a blessing. \nNo one to be sure sowed with so generous a blessing as she who was blessed\namong women and brought forth blessed seed from her womb. So let Mary reap\nher blessings; let her who sowed the blessing of all nations receive in a way all her\nown the blessing of all nations. “All generations\,” she says\, “will call me blessed.” \n7\n“Fourth Sermon for the Assumption\,” Liturgical Sermons\, vol. 2 (Cistercian Fathers Series 32)\,\nSpencer MA: Cistercian Publications\, 1971\, pp. 186-191.
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