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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:ENTIRELY TURNED TOWARDS GOD \nBy Lucien Legrand6 \n◊◊◊ \nThe significance of Mary’s virginity is entirely different from both cultic \nvirginity and philosophical continence. Mary knows that her virginity has no \nvalue of its own and no power but that of the Spirit. She does not speak of the \ngreatness of her virginity. For her\, it is not virginity that makes her great: it is \nthe Lord. As far as she is concerned\, she is nothing and her virginity seals her \nnothingness. Because she is a virgin\, she is ‘poor’\, a contemptible thing\, \nconsidered worthless by the world. Of course\, in the case of Mary as in that of \nthe ‘Poor of Yahweh’ in the Old Testament\, poverty should be taken in the \nbiblical sense. It is not merely negative. It does not mean only destitution… \nPoverty is a religious attitude which underlies the spiritual development \nof the Old Testament and prepares the way for the abasement of the cross\, the \nimprint of which it bears by anticipation. Biblical poverty does indeed mean life \ndeprived of any human hope but also and mostly at its deepest\, radical \ndetachment\, total humility and consequently utter confidence in God. Mary’s \nvirginity belongs to this type of poverty. It is a form of that religious attitude \nmade up of faith and abandon\, joy and confidence; it is akin to humility and can \nbe summarized as an attitude of religious expectation. It is silence\, readiness\, \nemptiness. And her greatness comes from the faith and confidence in god which \nspring in the heart on that emptiness\, and from the answer God gave to that \nfaith and confidence. \nVirginity of this kind differs entirely from its pagan counterparts. It does \nnot represent an attempt to substitute our influence for God’s power: on the \ncontrary\, Mary has no other ambition than to be the handmaid of the Lord. \nNeither does Mary’s virginity correspond to a merely human longing for purity \nand moral greatness. Her virginity does not belong so much to the moral as to \nthe theological virtues. It manifests an attitude before god rather than an effort \nof moral perfection and of self-achievement. Luke’s Gospel of the Infancy does \nnot describe in Mary a heroic form of the virtue of chastity. What it sees in her is \nsheer faith and hope which has no reliance in creatures but is entirely turned \ntoward God.
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