MARIAN MEDITATION 4
MARY IMMACULATE THE MYSTERY
MARY IMMACULATE THE MYSTERY
Think deeply what this means. Try to penetrate deeper and deeper into this mystery. You will derive much advantage from it.
1. The State of Mankind Before Sin.
Just think what man was and what he could have been without the sin of Adam. God's plan was so sublime, so magnificent. After having created other beings, God wanting to appoint and create a king for all creation, thinks of man. How lovingly He shaped him, not with a mere word as the other creatures but with an all-special interest.
He infuses in him a soul, spiritual and immortal, to the image and likeness of His divinity. Then He places him in an earthly paradise, an abode of all delights. Life there was happy, without sorrows, sufferings or tears. All was joy, and contentment. The soul of man was endowed by God with dignity, namely, the perfect subjection of the passions to reason. He was endowed with infused science so he could know everything without labor or study. He was, above all, endowed with sanctifying grace which made man an image of God, His Son, His temple.
The role of humanity was thus one of happiness and sanctity to serve and love God. At the end of life, without going through the test of death, man would be taken to Heaven to praise God eternally. Sublime indeed, was God's plan. Stop a little and consider it.
[excerpted from 'Marian Meditations' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar]
1. The State of Mankind Before Sin.
Just think what man was and what he could have been without the sin of Adam. God's plan was so sublime, so magnificent. After having created other beings, God wanting to appoint and create a king for all creation, thinks of man. How lovingly He shaped him, not with a mere word as the other creatures but with an all-special interest.
He infuses in him a soul, spiritual and immortal, to the image and likeness of His divinity. Then He places him in an earthly paradise, an abode of all delights. Life there was happy, without sorrows, sufferings or tears. All was joy, and contentment. The soul of man was endowed by God with dignity, namely, the perfect subjection of the passions to reason. He was endowed with infused science so he could know everything without labor or study. He was, above all, endowed with sanctifying grace which made man an image of God, His Son, His temple.
The role of humanity was thus one of happiness and sanctity to serve and love God. At the end of life, without going through the test of death, man would be taken to Heaven to praise God eternally. Sublime indeed, was God's plan. Stop a little and consider it.
[excerpted from 'Marian Meditations' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar]
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