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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of BVM
DESCRIPTION:CRUCIFIED BY LOVE \nBy St Elizabeth of the Trinity \n◊◊◊ \nNo one has penetrated the depths of the mystery of Christ except the \nBlessed Virgin. John and Mary Magdalene penetrated deeply this mystery; St P \naul often speaks of “the understanding of it which was given to him“; and yet\, \nhow all the saints remain in the shadows when we look at the Blessed Virgin’s \nlight! \nThis is the unspeakable “secret” that she kept in mind and pondered in \nher heart” which no tongue can tell or pen describe!… “The Virgin kept all these \nthings in her heart“: her whole history can be summed up in these few words! It \nwas within her heart that she lived\, and at such a depth that no human eye can \nfollow her. When I read in the Gospel “that Mary went in haste to the hill \ncountry of Judea” to perform her loving service for her cousin Elizabeth\, I \nimagine her passing by so beautiful\, so calm and so majestic\, so absorbed in \nrecollection of the Word of God within her. Like Him\, her prayer was always \nthis: “Ecce\, here I am!”… “The servant of the Lord\,” the lowliest of His creatures \n: she\, His Mother! Her humility was so real for she was always forgetful\, \nunaware\, freed from self. And she could sing: “The Almighty has done great \nthings for me\, henceforth all peoples will call me blessed.“ \nThis Queen of virgins is also Queen of martyrs; but again it was in her \nheart that the sword pierced\, for with her everything took place within!… Oh! \nHow beautiful she is to contemplate during her long martyrdom\, so serene\, \nenveloped in a kind of majesty that radiates both strength and gentleness… She \nlearned from the Word Himself how those must suffer whom the Father has \nchosen as victims\, those whom He has decided to associate with Himself in the \ngreat work of redemption\, those whom He “has foreknown and predestined to \nbe conformed to His Christ\,” crucified by love. \nShe is there at the foot of the Cross\, standing\, full of strength and courage \n\, and here My Master says to me: “Behold your mother”. He gives her to me for \nmy Mother… And now that He has returned to the Father and has substituted \nme for Himself on the Cross so that “I may suffer in my body what is lacking in \nHis passion for the sake of His body\, which is the Church\,” the Blessed Virgin i \ns again there to teach me to suffer as He did\, to tell me\, to make me hear those \nlast songs of His soul which no one else but she\, His Mother\, could overhear.
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