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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Queenship of Mary
DESCRIPTION:WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE SPEAK \nOF THE QUEENSHIP OF MARY? \nFrom the writing of Thomas Merton1 \n◊◊◊ \nMary alone\, of all the saints\, is\, in everything\, incomparable. She has the \nsanctity of them all and yet resembles none of them. And still\, we can talk of \nbeing like her. This likeness to her is not only something to desire — it is one \nhuman quality most worthy of our desire: but the reason for that is that she\, of \nall creatures\, most perfectly recovered the likeness to God that God willed to \nfind\, in varying degrees\, in us all. \nIt is necessary\, no doubt\, to talk about her privileges as if they were \nsomething that could be made comprehensible in human language and could \nbe measured by some human standard. It is most fitting to talk about her as a \nQueen and to act as if you knew what it meant to say she has a throne above all \nthe angels. But this should not make anyone forget that her highest privilege is \nher poverty and her greatest glory is that she is most hidden\, and the source of \nall her power is that she is as nothing in the presence of Christ\, of God. \nThis is often forgotten by Catholics themselves\, and therefore it is not \nsurprising that those who are not Catholic often have a completely wrong \nconception of Catholic devotion to the Mother of God. They imagine\, and \nsometimes we can understand their reasons for doing so\, that Catholics treat \nthe Blessed Virgin as an almost divine being in her own right\, as if she had some \nglory\, some power\, some majesty of her own that placed her on a level with \nChrist himself. They regard the Assumption of Mary into heaven as a kind of \napotheosis and her Queenship as a strict divinization.11 \nHence her place in the Redemption would seem to be equal to that of her \nSon. But this is all completely contrary to the true mind of the Catholic Church. \nIt forgets that Mary’s chief glory is her nothingness\, in the fact of being the \n“Handmaid of the Lord\,” as one who in becoming the Mother of God acted \nsimply in loving submission to his command\, in the pure obedience of faith. She \nis blessed not because of some mythical pseudo-divine prerogative\, but in all \nher human and womanly limitations as one who has believed. It is the faith and \nthe fidelity of this humble handmaid\, “full of grace” that enables her to be the \nperfect instrument of God\, and nothing else but his instrument. The work that \nwas done in her was purely the work of God. “He that is mighty has done great \nthings in me.” The glory of Mary is purely and simply the glory of God in her\, \nand she\, like anyone else\, can say that she has nothing that she has not received \nfrom him through Christ. \nAs a matter of fact\, this is precisely her greatest glory: that having nothing \nof her own\, retaining nothing of a “self” that could glory in anything for her own \nsake\, she placed no obstacle to the mercy of God and in no way resisted his love \nand his will. Hence\, she received more from him than any other saint. He was \nable to accomplish his will perfectly in her\, and his liberty was in no way \nhindered or turned from its purpose by the presence of an egotistical self in \nMary. She was and is in the highest sense a person precisely because\, being \n“immaculate\,” she was free from every taint of selfishness that might obscure \nGod’s light in her being. She was then a freedom that obeyed him perfectly and\, \nin this obedience\, found the fulfillment of perfect love.
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