A meditation upon: FIFTH GLORIOUS MYSTERY, The Coronation of our Blessed Lady in Heaven
“A THRONE was set for the King’s Mother, and she sat on His right hand; and the King said to her, ‘My Mother, ask; for I must not turn away my face.’ She was clothed with the sun, and the moon was under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars;” and “beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, she is transformed into the same image, from glory to glory.” What is the glory of all glory? Love; for “love is of God,” and “God is Love.” He loved us unto death, and He loves us in glory, and He desires this for His beloved: that, like Mary, and through Mary, we may each one be united to Himself in one Spirit, and be with Him, seeing Him as He is and for ever, in joy.
O love of God the Father, we adore Thee.
Love of God incarnate, we adore Thee.
Love of God the Paraclete, we adore Thee.
Mary, the Beloved of God, pray for us.
A meditation by Marianne Caroline Patmore published in an appendix to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, On the Love of God, translated by Patmore, Marianne Caroline, & Patmore, Coventry (1884), London: Burns and Oates.