MARY'S HEART - MOTHER'S HEART
2. The Heart of God's Mother.
We are overtaken by awe when plunging into the depths of such sublime mystery. Mary is Mother of God. Is there anything greater and more incomprehensible on the part of God than to have wanted a woman as His own real mother? And it was Mary who was called to the high glory of becoming the Mother of God. This mystery contains infinite wonders. According to it, Mary gave earthly life to God. This is what is meant by "being a mother," to give life to another being. Mary gave human life to the Son of God Who consequently became Her Son.
St. Augustine pondering over this sweet reality exclaimed: Christ's flesh, Mary's flesh.
And in fact, Her flesh, Her blood, Her life, Her heart were in truth the flesh, the blood, the life and the heart of God.
Without the intervention of any other paternity except that of God, the Son of God was exclusively Her Son. That is why Mary is more mother than any other mother. God and She: no one else had any share in this sublime maternity. No mother could exclaim more rightly than She when She pressed Her Son to Her bosom and said: "You are mine and wholly mine."
Jesus Christ was a real man. He had a body capable of suffering like ours, a human heart similar to ours, liable to be tenderly moved and feel our miseries and sorrows as His own, and it was all thanks to Mary.
"Mary," exclaims St. Augustine, "is Mother of Jesus, Mother of God much more according to the spirit than according to the flesh." We may say Mary also conceived Jesus in Her heart.
What tender currents must have been established between the maternal Heart of Mary and the Heart of the Child God! Those realizations so surpass our understanding when we think of them that it looks to us that the very humanity of Mary vanishes into perfect fusion with divinity itself. It looks as though the infinite distance that separates God from creatures has all of a sudden been obliterated.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
We are overtaken by awe when plunging into the depths of such sublime mystery. Mary is Mother of God. Is there anything greater and more incomprehensible on the part of God than to have wanted a woman as His own real mother? And it was Mary who was called to the high glory of becoming the Mother of God. This mystery contains infinite wonders. According to it, Mary gave earthly life to God. This is what is meant by "being a mother," to give life to another being. Mary gave human life to the Son of God Who consequently became Her Son.
St. Augustine pondering over this sweet reality exclaimed: Christ's flesh, Mary's flesh.
And in fact, Her flesh, Her blood, Her life, Her heart were in truth the flesh, the blood, the life and the heart of God.
Without the intervention of any other paternity except that of God, the Son of God was exclusively Her Son. That is why Mary is more mother than any other mother. God and She: no one else had any share in this sublime maternity. No mother could exclaim more rightly than She when She pressed Her Son to Her bosom and said: "You are mine and wholly mine."
Jesus Christ was a real man. He had a body capable of suffering like ours, a human heart similar to ours, liable to be tenderly moved and feel our miseries and sorrows as His own, and it was all thanks to Mary.
"Mary," exclaims St. Augustine, "is Mother of Jesus, Mother of God much more according to the spirit than according to the flesh." We may say Mary also conceived Jesus in Her heart.
What tender currents must have been established between the maternal Heart of Mary and the Heart of the Child God! Those realizations so surpass our understanding when we think of them that it looks to us that the very humanity of Mary vanishes into perfect fusion with divinity itself. It looks as though the infinite distance that separates God from creatures has all of a sudden been obliterated.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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