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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of BVM
DESCRIPTION:SHE OBEYED THE WORD \nBy Han Urs von Balthasar7 \n◊◊◊ \nMary is a prototype of the Church\, and this for two reasons: she is the \nplace of the real and bodily in-dwelling of the Word in the most intimate union \nof Mother and Child sharing the same flesh; and\, in the spiritual sphere\, she is \na servant\, in her entire person\, body and soul\, one who knows no law of her \nown\, but only conformity to the Word of God. Because she was a virgin\, which \nmeans a pure\, exclusive hearer of the word\, she became mother\, the place of the \nincarnation of the Word. Her womb was blessed\, only because she “heard the \nWord of God and kept it”\, because she “kept all these words and pondered them \nin her heart”. She is the model which should govern contemplation\, if it is to \nkeep clear of two dangers: one\, that of seeing the word only as something \nexternal\, instead of the profoundest mystery within our own being\, that in \nwhich we live\, move and are: the other\, that of regarding the word as so interior \nto us that we confuse it with our own being\, with a natural wisdom given us once \nand for all\, and ours to use as we will… \nThe hearer par excellence is the virgin who became pregnant with the \nWord\, and bore him as her own and the Father’s Son. She herself\, even when \nMother\, remained a servant; the Father alone is the Master\, together with the \nSon\, who is her life and who molds her life. She lives wholly for the fruit of her \nwomb. Even after she has given him birth\, she continues to carry him within \nher; she only needs to look into her heart\, to find him. But she does not omit\, \non that account\, to turn her gaze uninterruptedly upon the child growing up by \nher side\, upon the youth and the man\, whose ideas and actions seem to her ever \nmore unpredictable and astonishing. More and more\, she “understood not” \nwhat he meant when he stayed behind in the temple without telling her\, when \nhe failed to receive her\, when\, in his public life\, he concealed his power and \nspent himself in vain and\, in the end\, detached himself from her as she stood at \nthe foot of the cross\, substituting for himself a stranger\, John\, to be her son. \nWith all the force of her body\, she obeys the word that resounds ever more \nstrongly and divinely but seems more and more alien and almost tears her \nasunder\, although\, in spite of all\, she has given herself to it wholly and radically \nin advance. She lets herself be led where she “knows not”; the word she follows \nis far from being her own wisdom. Yet she is wholly in accord with its leading\, \nso surely is the word she loves “engrafted” in her heart. \n  \n7 London: Geoffrey Chapman\, 1963\, pp. 22-24.14 \n  \n  \n 
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