Day 26 - (Last Day of Week 2)

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

This has been such a beautiful experience for me – as it always is – seeking a deeper and truer knowledge of Mary, in preparing to re-consecrate myself to Jesus through Mary. Last Sunday, in our Bible Study someone asked about Jesus’ words, “Behold your Mother”. My husband gave this insight which he had not shared before: the word “Behold” is more than just “look or observe” – it indicates something wonderful and new. I immediately thought of the angel’s message to the shepherds at the birth of Christ, “Behold, I bring you good news of a great joy…”

My husband suggested that Jesus was telling John to “Behold your Mother” so that John would begin to see in Mary something new. Because Jesus was pouring out His Life for the Church, Mary was to be now more than just Mother of Jesus Who is God; Mary is now John’s mother and Mother of the Church in the order of grace. In the same way, when Jesus told Mary, “Behold your son”, Jesus was inviting Mary into a new relationship with John and all of us as members of the Body of Christ. May we continue to grow in our knowledge of Mary, through Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition and the Magisterium of the Church.

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[hazcompat]

Ecce

Peace

Hic taceat omnis lingua.

 

[MariaChristi]

Ecce

Peace

Hic taceat omnis lingua.

Thanks again!

Yes, “Ecce” (Latin for “Behold”) – Jesus told John and us “Behold your Mother”.

“Hic taceat omnis lingua” (Latin for “Here let every tongue be mute”) St. Louis de Montfort uses this sentence in paragraph 12 of True Devotion:

1. Finally, we must say in the words of the apostle Paul, “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has the heart of man understood” the beauty, the grandeur, the excellence of Mary, who is indeed a miracle of miracles of grace, nature and glory. “If you wish to understand the Mother,” says a saint, “then understand the Son. She is a worthy Mother of God.” Hic taceat omnis lingua : Here let every tongue be silent.

1. My heart has dictated with special joy all that I have written to show that Mary has been unknown up till now, and that that is one of the reasons why Jesus Christ is not known as he should be.

If then, as is certain, the knowledge and the kingdom of Jesus Christ must come into the world, it can only be as a necessary consequence of the knowledge and reign of Mary. She who first gave him to the world will establish his kingdom in the world.

When I think also of Pilate’s “Ecce” - “Behold the Man” said to the crowd who shouted for His death, I see the union of Jesus, the Man of Sorrows and Mary the Mother of Sorrows.

By God’s Grace may we continue to learn of Jesus through Mary.

 

[hazcompat]

The uninterrupted beholding in received silence is a foretaste of eternal beatitude. All is Grace.

Peace

 

[MariaChristi]

The uninterrupted beholding in received silence is a foretaste of eternal beatitude. All is Grace.

Peace

Thanks, hazcompat.

I cannot remember when or where I first read in the writing of St. Therese: “Everything is Grace”, but it is engraved deeply on my heart. Yes, only by grace can we receive “the uninterrupted beholding in received silence as it is experienced in eternal beatitude.”

How Good and Gracious God is to give any of us a “foretaste”!