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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of BVM
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nST THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX \n◊◊◊ \nIn speaking of our Lady\, we ought not to make improbable assertions \nabout matters that are beyond our knowledge\, for example\, that when she was a \nsmall child she went up to the Temple to offer herself to God with extraordinary \nfervor and a heart on fire with love. For all we know\, she went simply in \nobedience to her parents. \nIf a sermon on the Blessed Virgin is to bear fruit\, it must describe her \nreal life\, such as the Gospel gives us a glimpse of\, and not her fancied life. And \nwe perceive clearly that her real life at Nazareth and later on must have been \nquite ordinary…”He was subject to them”. How simple it all is! \nSometimes the Blessed Virgin is represented as being quite \nunapproachable. Instead\, we ought to show that she was imitable in her practice \nof hidden virtues; we ought to point out that she lived a life of faith\, just as we \ndo. \nWe know well that the Blessed Virgin is queen of heaven and earth; but \nshe is more of a mother than a queen\, and we ought not to give out the idea\, as I \nhave heard it done more than once\, that because of her prerogatives she eclipses \nthe glory of all the saints\, just as the sun\, rising in brilliance\, makes the stars \ndisappear. My God\, what a strange thing to say! A mother who makes the glory \nof her children disappear! For my part\, I believe just the opposite; I think that \nshe will greatly increase the splendor of the elect. \nWe do well to speak of her prerogatives. But we should not stop there. \nWe should make her loved. If\, when we hear a sermon on the Blessed Virgin\, the \npreacher tries to do nothing from beginning to end but call forth our \nadmiration\, we become bored\, and that does not lead to love and imitation. Who \nknows but what some souls will not experience a certain sense of estrangement \nfrom a creature so lofty? \n  \nThe Theology of the Mystical Body \, Emile Mersch SJ\, B. Herder Book Co.\, St Louis MO 1951\, pp. 169-170\,174ff.15 \n  \n  \n 
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