MEDITATION 9
MARY IMMACULATE
THE REDEMPTION
Let us today contemplate Our Blessed Lady playing Her part in the work of the redemption of mankind together with Christ Jesus and how She took part in that work precisely on account of Her being Immaculate.
1. The Work of Redemption.
Redemption was God's most important work, much more important than that of creation. One word sufficed for creation, whereas in order to redeem us He sent His Son personally to accomplish it. And that in a way that was the most humiliating for God and the most advantageous for us. Indeed God by humbling Himself in redemption not only redeemed us but also shortened the distance between man and God and became equal to us so that we should be similar to Him. What a great bounty, what an immense love. In this magnificent work of God, in this really divine accomplishment, God so intimately associated Our Lady in His work that, as St. Augustine puts it, She thereby gave the due solution to two divine conflicts: two conflicts, which appeared insoluble to human wisdom.
[From 'Marian Meditation' Book]
MARY IMMACULATE
THE REDEMPTION
Let us today contemplate Our Blessed Lady playing Her part in the work of the redemption of mankind together with Christ Jesus and how She took part in that work precisely on account of Her being Immaculate.
1. The Work of Redemption.
Redemption was God's most important work, much more important than that of creation. One word sufficed for creation, whereas in order to redeem us He sent His Son personally to accomplish it. And that in a way that was the most humiliating for God and the most advantageous for us. Indeed God by humbling Himself in redemption not only redeemed us but also shortened the distance between man and God and became equal to us so that we should be similar to Him. What a great bounty, what an immense love. In this magnificent work of God, in this really divine accomplishment, God so intimately associated Our Lady in His work that, as St. Augustine puts it, She thereby gave the due solution to two divine conflicts: two conflicts, which appeared insoluble to human wisdom.
[From 'Marian Meditation' Book]
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