Mary as Mediatrix
Hi! How is each and every one? We are four days away from the end of our seminar. The Prelate, Msgr Fernando Ocariz has left the region of the Philippines heading on to Australia. We continue accompanying him during his stay there as he requested in his recent letter to us, https://opusdei.org/en/article/letter-from-the-prelate-7-august-2023. And as I mentioned in the previous post, we will be continue enjoying the blessings, graces, and the fruits of his ten day stay plus two days in Indonesia. We are always assured of the presence of Our Lady. Let us continue turning to her even in this post for today (From Joseph Tissot, How to profit from your faults, pp. 124-125).
Ancient writers, supported by Sacred Scripture,
reveal to us this enchanting mystery in their commentaries. In the Old Testament, they say, God is given
names: Lord of the Armies, God of Vengeance, Lion of the tribe of Judah. He is represented as surrounded by fire,
thundering from the heavens, hurling thunder, sharpening the sword, bending
bows, shooting off arrows. We see him
bury the earth under flood waters, destroy guilty cities under sulphur rain,
drown his enemies in swirling sea waters, or we see him burying them in the
earth that his anger has partly opened up.
All of a sudden, the same God appears in the Gospels and takes on the
appearance of a Lamb.
He does not seem to have the courage to squash a half-broken reed, or to extinguish the still-smoking wick. What has happened? God has taken on flesh in the womb of Mary.
The sun while passing through the Zodiac signs of
Gemini, Cancer, and Leo pours down torrid heat.
These rays soften and become salutary as soon as the sun enters Virgo,
(St. Anthony, 4, 15, 21) just as the unicorn, when it lays its head in the lap
of a young girl, forgets its savage ferocity and becomes tame. So too, the Sun of Justice becomes a benign
star, changing his heart of anger to a gentle warmth as soon as he hides his
splendid radiance within the womb of the Virgin of Nazareth. Justice stays on in the Heavens, and mercy
descends to inhabit the earth. No more
anger, no more indignation after the virgin earth of Mary’s womb has borne its
fruit (See Psalm 84).
Within the womb of the gentlest of women, the Lion
of Judah has taken on the soft wool and the natural weakness of the lamb. From the milk of his Mother, he has drawn out
the gentleness of this tender sheep.
Milk
is better than wine, says an illustrious interpreter of the
Song of Songs. Wine can intoxicate a
man, make him forget the injuries he has received, and make it easier for him
to forgive. The milk of the blessed
Virgin has the power to intoxicate God.
He has hardly begun to drink when he imbibes mercy and removes the
memory of our sins, so as to forgive us generously (Card. Hailgrin). Richard of
St. Victor is not afraid to add:
“Yes. It is in you, O Mary, that
we find the accumulated abundance of God’s mercy, and it is from there that it
has flowed on to us” (In Cantic. 2,
23).
Honey has come out from the rock because from the
branch of Jesse has blossomed the flower that provides this sweet juice, the
cure for all our evils (Hugo de St. Victor, Miscell.,
2,4,26).
Well I just received this
video share on a miracle in Fatima during the World Youth Day in Portugal
(https://youtu.be/1LgpWGKMF7Y). Indeed
you and I always need to ask God for an increase in the theological virtues of
Faith, Hope and Charity. Let
us go to Our Lady for this every so often throughout the day.
See
you in the next post, “May tomorrow be a perfect day; may
you find love and laughter along the way; may God keep you in his tender care;
‘til He brings us together again.”
Affectionately,
Guadalupinky
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