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SUMMARY:Memorial of the BVM
DESCRIPTION:ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD\nFrom the writing of St Bernard of Clairvaux 7\n◊◊◊ \n‘And the Lord will give to him the throne of his father David’. Those are\nthe very words spoken by the angel to the Virgin about the Son who had been\npromised to her\, and by them he promised also that He should possess the\nkingship of David… \nAt first\, as long as she was doubtful\, she prudently kept silence…\npreferring\, of course\, humbly to give no reply rather than to speak hastily about\nmatters of which she knew nothing. But once she was reassured… for the Lord\nwas with her as the angel had said… once she was strengthened by the faith\nwhich casts out fear\, and by the joy which casts out confusion\, she said to the\nangel\, ‘How can this be\, since I know no man?’ She does not doubt the event\,\nbut wonders how it shall occur… \nHe said then\, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you\, and the power of the\nMost High will overshadow you.’… It is as if the angel replied to the Virgin\, ‘Why\nask me about something which you are going soon to experience in yourself?\nYou will find out…how happily you will find out\, and your teacher will be none\nother than he who works this [within you]\, I have been sent only to announce\nthis virginal conception\, not to bring it about. This is something which can only\nbe taught by the giver\, and learnt only by the receiver. “Therefore the Holy to be\nborn of you will be called the Son of God.”… \nWhat then? Are you the one who was promised\, or must we look for\nanother? No\, it is you and no one else… So\, answer the angel quickly or rather\,\nthrough the angel\, answer God. Only say the word and receive the Word: give\nyours and conceive God’s. Breathe one fleeting word and embrace the\neverlasting Word. Why do you delay? Why be afraid? Believe\, give praise and\nreceive. Let humility take courage and shyness confidence… Blessed Virgin\,\nopen your heart to faith\, your lips to consent and your womb to your Creator.\nBehold\, the long-desired of all nations is standing at the door and knocking. Oh\,\nwhat if he should pass by because of your delay and\, sorrowing\, you should\nagain have to seek him whom your soul loves? Get up\, run\, open! Get up by\nfaith\, run by prayer\, open by consent! \n‘Behold\,’ she says\, ‘I am the handmaiden of the Lord; let it be to me\naccording to your word’… May the Word who in the beginning was with God\,\nbecome flesh of my flesh\, according to your word… I do not want it to be a word\nproclaimed to me in discourse\, symbolized in figures\, or dreamed in the\nimagination\, but one silently inspired\, personally incarnate\, corporally\ninviscerate. May the Word which could not…be made in himself\, deign to be in\nme\, deign to be to me according to your word. Let it be for the whole world\, but\nlet it be to me uniquely ‘according to your word’. \n7 Bernard of Clairvaux. Homilies in Praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary. CF 18A. Trans. Marie-Bernard Saïd. Kalamazoo\, MI:\nCistercian Publications\, 1993. 45\, 48-50\, 54-55.
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