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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE ETERNAL SON \nFrom the writing of St Mechthild of Magdeburg \n◊◊◊ \nI saw and still see three Persons in the eternal heights before God’s Son \nwas conceived in the body of St. Mary. They were then known and seen by all \nthe holy angels in their distinctness\, in their completeness\, in their name\, and \nin how the Three were one God. No matter how good the angels’ eyes were\, they \nsaw neither bone nor flesh nor color nor the glorious name Jesus. This was \nmiraculously hidden from them in the breast of the eternal Father. They called \nthe Father the uncreated eternal God\, the Son wisdom with no beginning\, the \nSpirit of them both they called right knowledge of truth. \nThe fiery angels of the highest order\, who are suspended opposite the \nloving Godhead in the breath of the whole Trinity\, served and were witness to \nthe blissful decision when God became man. Gabriel brought only the name \ndown at the Annunciation. He was entrusted with neither bone nor flesh nor \nblood. The Second Person — that was always the eternal Son. Although he had \nnot yet assumed human nature\, he had always been ours but had not been given \nto us before Gabriel brought the message… Although Adam’s nature was broken \nand changed and his inheritance lost forever\, God never gave up on him. Hence \nwe were and still are able to return. God has kept his noble loving nature intact… \nHe cannot withhold himself. God immediately cast Lucifer from himself into \nthe eternal prison\, but he pursued Adam\, asked him where he was\, and brought \nhim back to the path. Lucifer had only a single nature in God. When he \ndestroyed it\, he could not return. \nMan has a complete nature in the Holy Trinity\, and God saw fit to fashion \nit with his own divine hands. When his holy efforts on our behalf went for \nnaught\, he was forced back within himself by a threefold delight. For this reason \nhe wanted to restore us with his own feet and his own hands so that we would \nhave great oneness with him. If man had remained in paradise\, God would have \nbeen immediately visible to him\, would have greeted his soul and refreshed his \nbody. Thus did I see God come from heaven to paradise\, like a great angel. \nAlso\, this same nature forces God to greet us with knowledge and with \nholy intimacy to the extent that we are prepared through holy virtues and true \ninnocence. When I reflect that divine nature now includes bone and flesh\, body \nand soul\, then I become elated in great joy\, far beyond what I am worth. But \nangels are to some degree formed according to the Holy Trinity\, but they are \npure spirits. The soul alone with its flesh is mistress of the house in heaven\, sits \nnext to the eternal Master of the house\, and is most like him. There eye reflects \nin eye\, there spirit flows in spirit\, there hand touches hand\, there mouth speaks \nto mouth\, and there heart greets heart. Thus does the Lord and Master honor \nthe mistress at his side. But the princes and the vassals — these are the holy \nangels — these the Master keeps in full view. All service and all praise the angels \nengage in are offered totally to the mistress as well as to the Master. \n  \n3 Mechthild of Magdeburg. The Flowing Light of the Godhead. Trans. Frank Tobin. New York: Paulist Press\, 1998. 156- \n158.9 \n  \n  \n 
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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