MARY'S HEART - MOTHER'S HEART
3. The Heart of the Mother of Men.
With the truly divine love which She had for Her Son, Mary loves us also. It could not be otherwise. We are Her children. She is verily our Mother. How could it be otherwise?
The Heart of Mary was never, of course, separated in love from Her divine Son. He was the first object of Her love, He was Her first-born and in a proper and strict sense, He was Her only Son. But in Him and with Him we were in a certain and true sense also Her other children. Mary envisaged us in this manner as unfortunate children who from Adam had inherited death and ruin, but who by the grace and mercy of God have been re-born in Christ, and through Christ have become children of Mary. What a Mother we have: what love towards us is contained in that maternal Heart. No doubt that Heart is devoured by the same love which enwraps the Heart of Jesus.
When She consented to that divine maternity proffered by the Angel of the Annunciation, with Her Fiat Mary agreed to be the Mother of God and our Mother also. She knew it was God's Will and She makes no distinction between the two maternities. She does not accept the first and reject the second. No, Her Heart will embrace both the sublime maternity of God and the sad, sorrowful, hard maternity of mankind.
Look at the Heart which decided on the Incarnation of the Word and which decreed the salvation of man whose Mother She was going to be. That decision sprung from Her loving Heart. There is yet another proof of Her motherly affection: She stands by the Cross and there She fulfills what She had promised, because there She is publicly and solemnly declared the Mother of Mankind. But who could ever fathom the cost? Yet She so loves Her children that She does not hesitate in accepting any suffering or sacrifice.
The greatest love that a mother could nurture towards Her children is in the Heart of Mary. The greatest sacrifice that any mother did for Her children was consummated in that Heart.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
3. The Heart of the Mother of Men.
With the truly divine love which She had for Her Son, Mary loves us also. It could not be otherwise. We are Her children. She is verily our Mother. How could it be otherwise?
The Heart of Mary was never, of course, separated in love from Her divine Son. He was the first object of Her love, He was Her first-born and in a proper and strict sense, He was Her only Son. But in Him and with Him we were in a certain and true sense also Her other children. Mary envisaged us in this manner as unfortunate children who from Adam had inherited death and ruin, but who by the grace and mercy of God have been re-born in Christ, and through Christ have become children of Mary. What a Mother we have: what love towards us is contained in that maternal Heart. No doubt that Heart is devoured by the same love which enwraps the Heart of Jesus.
When She consented to that divine maternity proffered by the Angel of the Annunciation, with Her Fiat Mary agreed to be the Mother of God and our Mother also. She knew it was God's Will and She makes no distinction between the two maternities. She does not accept the first and reject the second. No, Her Heart will embrace both the sublime maternity of God and the sad, sorrowful, hard maternity of mankind.
Look at the Heart which decided on the Incarnation of the Word and which decreed the salvation of man whose Mother She was going to be. That decision sprung from Her loving Heart. There is yet another proof of Her motherly affection: She stands by the Cross and there She fulfills what She had promised, because there She is publicly and solemnly declared the Mother of Mankind. But who could ever fathom the cost? Yet She so loves Her children that She does not hesitate in accepting any suffering or sacrifice.
The greatest love that a mother could nurture towards Her children is in the Heart of Mary. The greatest sacrifice that any mother did for Her children was consummated in that Heart.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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