MARY IMMACULATE
THE REDEMPTION
3. The Second Conflict.
But this victim had to be perfectly sinless for He had to rescue the world from sin and pay the price of ransom. But if that victim had to take flesh and blood from a woman, He must be a human victim like ourselves. And we all are born in sin. Would that victim also be born in sin like the rest of us? That cannot be. It is absurd. How then solve this difficulty? There is only one way out. And one that supposes an unheard of miracle. An extraordinary and unique privilege. But for God nothing is impossible. So it was done: Mary Immaculate, conceived without sin, is the solution. She gives God that pure flesh and clean blood which alone can be the holy victim required for the sacrifice of the Cross. It is by Christ that we are redeemed, but it is through Mary Immaculate that He redeemed us. Glory be to the Redemptor and to the co-Redemptrix!
Thus Mary, who took such a great part in the work of our redemption, could not be absent when it was consummated on the Cross. She, who had not been present with Her Son in His apostolic preachings, nor was She a witness of all His miracles, nor did She appear at His side in the hours of triumph and glory, was, however, present by the side of Her Son at the hour of His sacrifice.
And She was indeed so closely united with Her Son that the piercing of the thorns, the blows of the scourges, the whole agony of His death was shared by Her till the end. She with Jesus drank to the very dregs the chalice of the passion. She was bound with Him on the altar of the Cross as though they were two victims of the same sacrifice, as though they were two hosts offered on the same altar: hosts and victims pleasing to God since they were so pure and immaculate. Thank Our Blessed Lady on seeing Her thus cooperating so efficaciously in our salvation. Thank God that She with Her immaculate purity is the solution of all those thorny problems.
[From 'Marian Meditations']
But this victim had to be perfectly sinless for He had to rescue the world from sin and pay the price of ransom. But if that victim had to take flesh and blood from a woman, He must be a human victim like ourselves. And we all are born in sin. Would that victim also be born in sin like the rest of us? That cannot be. It is absurd. How then solve this difficulty? There is only one way out. And one that supposes an unheard of miracle. An extraordinary and unique privilege. But for God nothing is impossible. So it was done: Mary Immaculate, conceived without sin, is the solution. She gives God that pure flesh and clean blood which alone can be the holy victim required for the sacrifice of the Cross. It is by Christ that we are redeemed, but it is through Mary Immaculate that He redeemed us. Glory be to the Redemptor and to the co-Redemptrix!
Thus Mary, who took such a great part in the work of our redemption, could not be absent when it was consummated on the Cross. She, who had not been present with Her Son in His apostolic preachings, nor was She a witness of all His miracles, nor did She appear at His side in the hours of triumph and glory, was, however, present by the side of Her Son at the hour of His sacrifice.
And She was indeed so closely united with Her Son that the piercing of the thorns, the blows of the scourges, the whole agony of His death was shared by Her till the end. She with Jesus drank to the very dregs the chalice of the passion. She was bound with Him on the altar of the Cross as though they were two victims of the same sacrifice, as though they were two hosts offered on the same altar: hosts and victims pleasing to God since they were so pure and immaculate. Thank Our Blessed Lady on seeing Her thus cooperating so efficaciously in our salvation. Thank God that She with Her immaculate purity is the solution of all those thorny problems.
[From 'Marian Meditations']
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