Thursday, April 20, 2017

Blessed Lady



"Blessed Lady, sky and stars, earth and rivers, day and night rejoice that through you they are in some sense restored to their lost beauty and are endowed within expressible new grace.  The world, contrary to its true destiny, was corrupted and tainted by the acts of men who served idols.  The universe rejoices with new and indefinable loveliness.  Not only does it feel the unseen presence of God himself, its Creator, it sees him openly, working and making it holy.  These great blessings spring from the blessed fruit of Mary's womb.
               Through the fullness of the grace that was given you, dead things rejoice in their freedom, and those in heaven are glad to be made new.  Through the Son who was the glorious fruit of your virgin womb, just souls who died before his life-giving death rejoice as they are freed from captivity, and the angels are glad at the restoration of their shattered domain.
               Lady, full and overflowing with grace, all creation receives new life from your abundance. Virgin, blessed above all creatures, through your blessing all creation is blessed, not only creation from its Creator, but the Creator himself has been blessed by creation.
               To Mary God gave his only-begotten Son, whom he loved as himself.  Through Mary God make himself a Son, not different but the same, by nature Son of God and Son of Mary.  The whole universe was created by God, and God was born of Mary.  God created all things, and Mary gave birth to God.  The God who made all things gave himself form through Mary, and thus he made his own creation.  He who could create all things from nothing would not remake his ruined creation without Mary.
               God, then, is the Father of the created world and Mary the mother of the re-created world.  God is the Father by whom all things were given life, and Mary the mother through whom all things were given new life.  For God begot the Son, through whom all things were made, and Mary gave birth to him as the Savior of the world.  Without God's Son, nothing could exist; without Mary's Son, nothing could be redeemed. 
               Truly the Lord is with you, to whom the Lord granted all nature should owe as much to you as to himself.           "             (Saint Anselm, bishop)
               We owe so very much to Mary who was willing to say, "Yes."  Are we equally willing?  We too have been called from birth to serve the Lord.  We too have been prepared in our mother's womb to fulfill God's plan for us.  Free to say to God, "Do with me as you will."  Free to say no.  May we choose to say yes.           kvs

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