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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Queenship of the BVM
DESCRIPTION:THE QUEENSHIP OF MARY \nFrom the writing of Thomas Merton \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 most fitting to talk about her as a Queen… But this should not make \nanyone forget that her highest privilege is her poverty and her greatest glory is \nthat she is most hidden\, and the source of all her power is that she is as nothing \nin 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 divination. \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…in all her human and womanly limitations as one who has believed. \nIt is the faith and the fidelity of this humble handmaid\, “full of grace” that \nenables her to be the perfect instrument of God\, and nothing else but his \ninstrument. The work that was done in her was purely the work of God. “He that \nis mighty has done great things in me.” The glory of Mary is purely and simply \nthe glory of God in her\, and she\, like anyone else\, can say that she has nothing \nthat she has not received from him through Christ… \nThis is precisely her greatest glory: that having nothing of her own\, \nretaining nothing of a “self” that could glory in anything for her own sake\, she \nplaced no obstacle to the mercy of God and in no way resisted his love and his \nwill. Hence\, she received more from him than any other saint. He was able to \naccomplish his will perfectly in her\, and his liberty was in no way hindered or \nturned from its purpose… She was then a freedom that obeyed him perfectly \nand\, in this obedience\, found the fulfillment of perfect love.
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