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SUMMARY:Immaculate Heart of Mary
DESCRIPTION:A reading from\nST ELIZABETH OF THE TRINITY 7\n◊◊◊\n“The Virgin kept all these things in her heart”: her whole history can be summed up in these few words! It was within her heart that she lived\, and at such a depth that no human eye can follow her. When I read in the gospel “that Mary went in haste to the hill country of Judea” to perform her loving service for her cousin Elizabeth\, I imagine her passing by so beautiful\, so calm and so majestic\, so absorbed in recollection of the Word of God within her. Like him her prayer was always this: “Ecce\, here I am!” Who? “The servant of the Lord\,” the lowliest of his creatures: she\, his Mother! Her humility was so real for she was always forgetful\, unaware\, freed from self. And she could sing: “The Almighty has done great things for me\, henceforth all peoples will call me blessed.”\nThis Queen of virgins is also Queen of martyrs; but again it was in her heart that the sword pierced\, for with her everything took place within! Oh! How beautiful she is to contemplate during her long martyrdom\, so serene\, enveloped in a kind of majesty that radiates both strength and gentleness. She learned from the Word himself how those must suffer whom the Father has chosen as victims\, those whom he has decided to associate with himself in the great work of redemption\, those whom he “has foreknown and predestined to be conformed to his Christ\,” crucified by love.\nShe is there at the foot of the Cross\, standing\, full of strength and courage\, and here my Master says to me: [“Behold your Mother.”] He gives her to me for my Mother. And now that he has returned to the Father and has substituted me for himself on the Cross so that “I may suffer in my body what is lacking in his passion for the sake of his body\, which is the Church\,” the Blessed Virgin is again there to teach me to suffer as he did\, to tell me\, to make me hear those last songs of his soul which no one else but she\, his Mother\, could overhear. \n7\nComplete Works\, vol. 1\, translated by Sr. Aletheia Kane\, OCD\, Washington\, D.C.: ICS Publications\, 1984\, pp. 160-161.
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