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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of BVM
DESCRIPTION:MARY’S VIRGINITY \nFrom the writing of Lucien Legrand \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. \nOf course\, in the case of Mary as in that of the ‘Poor of Yahweh’ in the Old \nTestament\, poverty should be taken in the biblical sense. It is not merely \nnegative. It does not mean only destitution. As we find it in the life of the great \nbiblical figures such as Jeremiah\, Job the anawim in the Psalms and the \nSuffering Servant in Isaiah\, poverty is a religious attitude which underlies the \nspiritual development of the Old Testament and prepares the way for the \nabasement of the cross\, the imprint of which it bears by anticipation. \nBiblical poverty does indeed mean life deprived of any human hope but \nalso and mostly at its deepest\, radical detachment\, total humility and \nconsequently utter confidence in God. Mary’s virginity belongs to this type of \npoverty. It is a form of that religious attitude made up of faith and abandon\, joy \nand confidence; it is akin to humility and can be summarized as an attitude of \nreligious expectation. It is silence\, readiness\, emptiness. And her greatness \ncomes from the faith and confidence in god which spring in the heart on that \nemptiness\, and from the answer God gave to that faith 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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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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