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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of the BVM
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nST THEODORE THE STUDITE \n◊◊◊ \nNever has anyone been nearer to God than the blessed and most \nwonderful Virgin Mary. Who could be purer? Who more sinless? She was loved \nso ardently by God\, the Divine\, infinitely pure light\, that he made himself of one \nsubstance with her through the power of the Holy Spirit and was born of her as \nperfect man\, while keeping entire his own unchangeable and unblended nature. \nHow marvelous this is! In his immense love for man\, God was not ashamed to \ntake for his mother her who was his handmaid. What condescension! In his \ninfinite goodness he did not hesitate to become a child of her whom he himself \nhad made. He was truly in love with the most gracious of his creatures\, and he \ntook her who was of greater worth than the heavenly powers. \nThe words of Zechariah the prophet do indeed apply to her: “Sing and \nrejoice\, O daughter of Zion; for lo\, I come and I will dwell in the midst of you\, \nsays the Lord”. And again it is she whom blessed Joel is addressing\, so it seems \nto me\, when he writes: “Fear not\, O land: be glad and rejoiced\, for the Lord has \ndone great things!”. For Mary is a land: that land on which Moses the man of \nGod was told to remove his shoe\, figure of the law\, for grace was going to take \nthe place of law. \nAgain\, she is that land which is established by the Holy Spirit himself\, as \nwe sing: “He laid the foundation of the earth”. She is a land that\, without having \nbeen sown\, has yielded the fruit which nourishes everything that exists. She is a \nland on which the thorn of sin has never grown: on the contrary\, she has given \nthe light of day to him who has torn up sin by the root. In short\, she is a land that \nhas not been cursed\, as the first one has\, with harvests of thorns and thistles\, for \nshe is one on which the Lord’s blessing rests\, a land bearing in her womb a \nblessed fruit\, as the sacred word declares. \nRejoice\, House of God\, land on which God has stepped\, you who have \ncontained in your body him whose divinity overflows all bounds. For he who is \nsimplicity itself has taken man’s complex nature; the Eternal has entered into \ntime and the infinite into limits. Rejoice\, House of God\, resplendent with the \nlight of divinity. Rejoice\, full of grace: your deed and your name are more joy- \ngiving than all joy. For your immortal joy\, Christ\, has come into the world\, the \ncure for the sadness of man. Rejoice\, Paradise happier than the garden of Eden\, \nwhere all virtue has grown and where the tree of Life has flourished.
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