MARY IN GOD'S MIND
1. The Idea of Mary in Eternity.
All of us have existed from eternity in the mind of God. All of us were perfectly known to Him. He thought of you individually. . . . before you were born, the thought of you was in Him. He loved you already. Says St. John rightly, Let us love God because He first loved us. [See 1 St. John 4:19]
If this can be said of all, what should be said of Mary?
She, much more and better than any other being, engaged God's mind. The eyes of God envisage Mary --Mary before all else-- and all else in her. This is His first thought after that of His own essence. If, by an impossibility, God could forget everything and ignore us all even then He could not help seeing Mary in His mind, on account of Her close association with God, on account of the union that holds Her so closely to divinity.
After the One He has of Himself, Mary is God's greatest idea.
[Excerpted from 'Marian Meditations' by Rev. Dr. I. R. Villar]
All of us have existed from eternity in the mind of God. All of us were perfectly known to Him. He thought of you individually. . . . before you were born, the thought of you was in Him. He loved you already. Says St. John rightly, Let us love God because He first loved us. [See 1 St. John 4:19]
If this can be said of all, what should be said of Mary?
She, much more and better than any other being, engaged God's mind. The eyes of God envisage Mary --Mary before all else-- and all else in her. This is His first thought after that of His own essence. If, by an impossibility, God could forget everything and ignore us all even then He could not help seeing Mary in His mind, on account of Her close association with God, on account of the union that holds Her so closely to divinity.
After the One He has of Himself, Mary is God's greatest idea.
[Excerpted from 'Marian Meditations' by Rev. Dr. I. R. Villar]
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