God chose Mary to give us his Son, Mary: Day 016

Last updated on: August 8, 2015 at 8:01 am by Pete Socks

God chose Mary to give us his Son, Mary: Day 016 2015-08-08T08:01:22-05:00 Pete Socks

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God chose Mary to give us his Son

St. Louis teaches us that God the Son comes to us through Mary, and that God takes delight in her.

It was only through Mary that God the Father gave his only-begotten Son to the world. Whatever sighs the patriarchs may have sent forth, whatever prayers the prophets and the saints of the Old Covenant may have offered up to obtain this treasure for four thousand years, it was only Mary who merited it and found grace before God by the force of her prayers and eminence of her virtues. The world was unworthy, says St. Augustine, to receive the Son of God directly from the Father’s hands. He gave him to Mary in order that the world might receive him through her.

The Son of God became Man for our salvation. But it happened in Mary and by Mary. God the Holy Spirit formed Jesus Christ in Mary. But it was only after having asked her consent by one of the angelic first ministers of his court. God the Father communicated to Mary his fruitfulness, to the extent that a mere creature was capable of it, in order that he might give her the power to pro- duce his Son and all the members of his Mystical Body. God the Son descended into her virginal womb as the New Adam into his terrestrial paradise, to take his
pleasure there, and to work in secret marvels of grace.

God made Man found his liberty in seeing himself imprisoned in her womb. He made his omnipotence shine forth in letting himself be carried by that hum- ble maiden. He found his glory and his Father’s glory in hiding his splendors from all creatures here below, and revealing them to Mary only.—St. Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary

IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .
Have I pondered Mary’s essential role in God’s plan for our salvation? Am I grateful to the Father for choosing her, and grateful to her for saying yes to him?

CLOSING PRAYER
From the “Salve Regina”: Almighty and everlasting God, who by the cooperation of the Holy Spirit prepared the body and soul of the glorious Virgin Mother Mary to become a
dwelling place fit for your Son: Grant that as we rejoice in her commemoration, so by her fervent intercession we may be delivered from present evils and from everlasting death.
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