MEDITATION 11
THE NATIVITY OF OUR LADY
(CONTINUED)
The Nativity of Our Heavenly Mother is a motive of universal joy for Heaven and earth. At Her birth God rejoices, and with Him the angels, saints and the Church.
1. God's Joy.
Mary is the masterpiece of His hands. When, says the Book of Genesis, the Lord saw the things He had created, they looked good to Him and He rejoiced in them. How much more, then, would He rejoice at seeing Mary! Enter deeply into this consideration. Remember how man had sinned; how through his sin the whole creation and the plans of God were upset. God could no longer look at the earth with delight. There was no where for His eyes to alight. Everywhere the kingdom of sin was established. But then Mary appears and all changes. After thousands of years God looks again at creation, to find it beautiful and interesting. He looks at the earth and men and no longer takes His eyes from them in disgust. In Mary He again sees His perfect and pure reflection; and through Mary He again sees His image reflected in the rest of creation, restored to its original beauty. What joy to find Her so pure, so holy, so full of grace!
Contemplate the Eternal Father taking delight in the birth of His most beloved Daughter. See God the Son looking with ineffable love at the One Whom He will call by the most sweet name of Mother. See the Holy Spirit so interested in this little maiden Whom He wants gifted from the very first moment of Her life with more grace, beauty, sanctity and purity than all the saints together. With what immense love did the Holy Spirit place in Her soul one by one all the virtues that were to adorn the Heart of His Most Beloved Spouse!
[From 'Marian Meditations' Book]
THE NATIVITY OF OUR LADY
(CONTINUED)
The Nativity of Our Heavenly Mother is a motive of universal joy for Heaven and earth. At Her birth God rejoices, and with Him the angels, saints and the Church.
1. God's Joy.
Mary is the masterpiece of His hands. When, says the Book of Genesis, the Lord saw the things He had created, they looked good to Him and He rejoiced in them. How much more, then, would He rejoice at seeing Mary! Enter deeply into this consideration. Remember how man had sinned; how through his sin the whole creation and the plans of God were upset. God could no longer look at the earth with delight. There was no where for His eyes to alight. Everywhere the kingdom of sin was established. But then Mary appears and all changes. After thousands of years God looks again at creation, to find it beautiful and interesting. He looks at the earth and men and no longer takes His eyes from them in disgust. In Mary He again sees His perfect and pure reflection; and through Mary He again sees His image reflected in the rest of creation, restored to its original beauty. What joy to find Her so pure, so holy, so full of grace!
Contemplate the Eternal Father taking delight in the birth of His most beloved Daughter. See God the Son looking with ineffable love at the One Whom He will call by the most sweet name of Mother. See the Holy Spirit so interested in this little maiden Whom He wants gifted from the very first moment of Her life with more grace, beauty, sanctity and purity than all the saints together. With what immense love did the Holy Spirit place in Her soul one by one all the virtues that were to adorn the Heart of His Most Beloved Spouse!
[From 'Marian Meditations' Book]
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