Meditation 92
MOTHER OMNIPOTENT
1. All-powerful.
This title must ofttimes have been on your lips. Your heart must ofttimes have uttered this invocation: Oh Heavenly Mother, Mother Omnipotent. A title which should ever strengthen your trust in Our Lady. Our Lady is the all-powerful Queen who wields on behalf of Her children all power.
Mary is practically omnipotent, not with a natural or essential omnipotence for such belongs only to God, but by communication. She is practically omnipotent not by nature but by grace Mary has been raised to the highest dignity. And since power is in proportion to dignity, Mary's dignity warrants the highest power.
Her power derives from Her dignity. She is the Mother of God. She forever can address to Jesus the very same words uttered by the Eternal Father: Thou art My Son, I have begotten Thee: consequently, Mary as Mother has rights over, and a love for, the Son of God. As a consequence the power of God is subjected and chained to the will of Mary. Just as in the house of Nazareth for about thirty years.
And why should there be a total and perfect submission of Jesus to the Virgin Mother? The love that Her divine child bore for Her compelled Him to the necessity of complying with whatever She wished. And although His actions as Redeemer were in no way dependent upon Her, yet He willed that also in this respect His will should be submitted to Her, as is shown in the first miracle of Cana. It is a consoling thought to know that the power of God lies in the hands of His Mother who happens to be your Mother also.
The Holy Fathers of the Church have said admirable things about this all-powerfulness of Mary. "O Virgin, all that God can do through His omnipotence you can also do through your prayer." St. Antoninus said that the prayer of the Mother of God is for all practical purposes a command. It cannot but be heard.
St. Peter Damian writes: "Oh Mary, when you approach the Golden Altar of pardon, it isn't to beseech but as a queen to command, since all the treasures of God's mercy lie in your hands." St. Bonaventure goes so far as to say: "No one enters Heaven except through Mary."
Great St. Bernard advises us: "Have recourse to Mary. I tell you without hesitation She is always heard on account of Her dignity. The Angel told her that She had found grace and in fact Mary always finds grace."
Finally, these words of St. Bernardine de Sienna are very well known: "The command of Mary is obeyed by the whole world woven by God Himself. Let Mary will anything, and it will be done."
God's submission and obedience to His creature is really sublime but not less sublime is Her dignity being placed in such heights that She can issue orders in Heaven.
The rights and love of a mother: these are the foundations of Her omnipotence. A mother has the right to issue orders to her son. The son has the duty to obey her. A mother tenderly loves her son. A good son cannot but love his mother and consequently be always ready to please her in everything.
Just apply this simple rule to Mary and Her divine child to see why Our Lady must be practically all-powerful.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
This title must ofttimes have been on your lips. Your heart must ofttimes have uttered this invocation: Oh Heavenly Mother, Mother Omnipotent. A title which should ever strengthen your trust in Our Lady. Our Lady is the all-powerful Queen who wields on behalf of Her children all power.
Mary is practically omnipotent, not with a natural or essential omnipotence for such belongs only to God, but by communication. She is practically omnipotent not by nature but by grace Mary has been raised to the highest dignity. And since power is in proportion to dignity, Mary's dignity warrants the highest power.
Her power derives from Her dignity. She is the Mother of God. She forever can address to Jesus the very same words uttered by the Eternal Father: Thou art My Son, I have begotten Thee: consequently, Mary as Mother has rights over, and a love for, the Son of God. As a consequence the power of God is subjected and chained to the will of Mary. Just as in the house of Nazareth for about thirty years.
And why should there be a total and perfect submission of Jesus to the Virgin Mother? The love that Her divine child bore for Her compelled Him to the necessity of complying with whatever She wished. And although His actions as Redeemer were in no way dependent upon Her, yet He willed that also in this respect His will should be submitted to Her, as is shown in the first miracle of Cana. It is a consoling thought to know that the power of God lies in the hands of His Mother who happens to be your Mother also.
The Holy Fathers of the Church have said admirable things about this all-powerfulness of Mary. "O Virgin, all that God can do through His omnipotence you can also do through your prayer." St. Antoninus said that the prayer of the Mother of God is for all practical purposes a command. It cannot but be heard.
St. Peter Damian writes: "Oh Mary, when you approach the Golden Altar of pardon, it isn't to beseech but as a queen to command, since all the treasures of God's mercy lie in your hands." St. Bonaventure goes so far as to say: "No one enters Heaven except through Mary."
Great St. Bernard advises us: "Have recourse to Mary. I tell you without hesitation She is always heard on account of Her dignity. The Angel told her that She had found grace and in fact Mary always finds grace."
Finally, these words of St. Bernardine de Sienna are very well known: "The command of Mary is obeyed by the whole world woven by God Himself. Let Mary will anything, and it will be done."
God's submission and obedience to His creature is really sublime but not less sublime is Her dignity being placed in such heights that She can issue orders in Heaven.
The rights and love of a mother: these are the foundations of Her omnipotence. A mother has the right to issue orders to her son. The son has the duty to obey her. A mother tenderly loves her son. A good son cannot but love his mother and consequently be always ready to please her in everything.
Just apply this simple rule to Mary and Her divine child to see why Our Lady must be practically all-powerful.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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