THE ANNUNCIATION
THE VIRGINAL PURITY OF MARY
4. The Predilection of Jesus.
Our Lord had a great love and preference for virginity. To it He devoted one of His beatitudes. He loved with preference that disciple who was a virgin. To him at the foot of the Cross He entrusted the treasure of His Mother, judging him on account of his virginity to be the one best fit to look after the Virgin of Virgins. Jesus remained with us in the Eucharist and gave His priests full power over His Body and Blood, but He demands that the priesthood be virginal. Jesus has some chosen souls, virgins of the Lord, as His spouses. Finally, He reserves for the virgins a special reward in Heaven; they accompany the Lamb of God wherever He goes and sing with Him a new canticle which they alone know.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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