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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of the BVM
DESCRIPTION:IN PRAISE OF THE \nBLESSED VIRGIN MARY’S HUMILITY \nFrom a sermon by St Bernard of Clairvaux \n◊◊◊ \nNot everyone is a virgin\, but there are still fewer who join humility to \nvirginity\, as does Mary. So if you can do no more than admire Mary’s virginity\, \ntry to imitate her humility and for you this will be enough. \nBut in Mary there is something else still more admirable [than humility \njoined to her virginity]; her childbearing allied with her virginity. Never since \nthe world began has it been known for any woman to be at once a mother and a \nvirgin. If you just think whose mother she is surely you must be astounded at \nsuch marvelous greatness. Who could ever admire this enough? To your way of \nthinking\, or rather\, not yours but Truth’s\, should she not be exalted above all the \nchoirs of angels\, she who bore God the Son? Who else would dare\, as Mary did\, \nto call ‘son’ the Lord and God of angels\, and to say “son\, why have you treated us \nso?” Would any angel dare this? They already consider it a great favor to be \ncalled\, and to be\, angels\, when they are no more than spirits\, as David suggests \nwhen he says “He makes the spirits his angels.” Yet his was the same Majesty \nwhom they serve with awe and reverence that Mary\, knowing herself the \nmother\, confidently called her son. \nNor did God disdain to be called what he had deigned to become. As the \nEvangelist tells us a bit later\, “he was obedient to them.” Who? God. To whom? \nTo men. God\, I repeat\, to whom the angels are subject\, he whom the \nprincipalities and the power obey\, he was obedient to Mary. And not only to \nMary but to Joseph\, too\, for Mary’s sake. Marvel then at these two things: the \ngracious kindness of the Son and the surpassing dignity of the mother. Choose \nwhich you consider more wonderful. Just imagine!.. God does what a woman \nsays—unheard of humility. A woman outranks God — unparalleled sublimity. In \npraise of the virgins we sing that “they follow the Lamb wherever he goes.” Of \nwhat praise then do you consider her worthy\, who preceded him? \nMan\, learn to obey! Earth\, learn to be subject! Dust\, I say\, learn to submit \nyourself! The Evangelist tells you that your Creator was obedient to them – \nmeaning to Mary and Joseph\, of course. Blush for shame… God stoops down in \nhumility\, and you exalt yourself? God is obedient to men\, and you\, anxious to lord \nit over men\, set yourself up as your own authority? God preserve me from ever \nthinking such a thing! And if I should\, may he be so kind as to rebuke me with that \nanswer he have to the apostle: “Get behind me\, Satan! You do not know the things \nof God.” Every time I seek to lord it over men\, I am trying to get in front of my God \n– and then\, in all truth\, I do not know the things of God. For it was said of him \nthat he was obedient to them.
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