There's something about Mary (pun intended;-)
Her exalted person and importance for Salvation
why bother at all about saints in general and Mary in particular? Jesus as the second person of the Trinity has made the perfect sacrifice for us and simply accepting our Salvation should be enough, right? Yes, in principle it is. But God loves us so much that he wanted to involve us in his Redemption work (as St Paul said: "so that we may add what is missing to the offer of Christ" cf. Col 1:24 and what Isaiah (7:14) wrote on what it's about: "the Lord will give you a sign: behold the Virgin will conceive and bare a son, and his name will be Emmanuel, 'God with us' ) in order that we better understand what it entails, we can open us up more to it and can deeper enter in our Redemption (to participate in an act of love is to get closer to the God who is Love) until we finally are 'drenched' with mercy. The saints precisely serve that purpose: they show us good examples of how to live the real life, God working through them more clearly shows His greatness and (all good things come in triples;-) they actively help our sanctification by their prayer, like Jude Maccabees offering sacrifices for his fallen comrades (2 Macc 12:43-46).
And ’Myriam of Nazareth’ is the prototype saint, the closer to God the greater the saint and ”Myriam” (nomen est omen) means ”Ocean of God”. So let's have a look at her!
The first to remark is her intimate Trinitarian bond with God, the origin of her high calling. Mary is the perfect daughter of God the Father, she is the "Immaculate Conception" (as she called herself in Lourdes, without original sin; the angel Gabriel called her Kecharitomene, Full of Grace, see Luke 1:28) and has always done what He asked (her answer has always been "behold the servant of the Lord, let it be done to me according to your word," see Luke 1:38).
Mary is the bride of God the Holy Spirit, foreseen before all ages; her vow of virginity (the meaning of her words "since I do not know any man," see Luke 1:34) shows her dedication from her youth, and by God's power Jesus was conceived ("the Holy Spirit will come over you" as Gabriel declared, see Luke 1:35).
Mary is truly the Mother of God (as pronounced by Elisabeth, see Luke 1:43) the Son; indeed Jesus body formed itself from hers. Tradition expresses this undissolvable bond by saying that the Immaculate Heart of Mary & the sacred Heart of Jesus are one (St John Eudes) and even goes so far as to say that the only difference between Jesus and Mary is that Mary is a light that doesn't shine from herself or a rose that needs the divine foundation.
This unique bond with the Trinity and especially with Jesus the Messiah also makes her participation in Redemption unique (so she's the Co-redemptrix); Already her fiat to Gabriel was a sine qua non for the Incarnation and the prophecy of Simeon (”a sword will pierce your soul,” see Luke 2:35) carries a remarkable similarity to the physical lance that would later pierce Jesus' side (John 19:34). Moreover, there is no saint as present and honoured as Mary, like she was also present at all the important milestones in Jesus' life for example the accomplishment of his first miracle in Cana (John 2:11). His remark there to her ("Woman my time has not yet come," see John 2:4) on one hand indicates that he doesn't speak as a son to his mother but as the Christ, the new Adam, to the new Eve who was promised directly after original Sin in Genesis ("the Woman will crush your head serpent," see Gen 3:14) and who once again appears in the book Revelation as the great sign ("a Woman robed with the sun, the moon under her feet and crowned with twelve stars,” see Rev 12:1). The sun symbolises the divine power entrusted to her (making her the Mediatrix) and this brings us to the second point of Jesus' remark at Cana: that He did the miracle solely because of Mary. Remember Jesus' words throughout all of the Gospel: "ask and you will be given" (Mat 7:7), "your faith has saved you" (e.g. Luke 7:50), and "if your faith were only as small as a mustard seed you could tell this mountain to throw itself into the sea" (Mat 17:20), apply them to Mary and remark that her will always has been and will be that of God (her words to the servants in Cana: "do whatever He tells you," see John 2:5) and ask yourself then whether this divine power thingy really is that farfetched?! LOL
At the summum of Jesus' life he already made her the Mother of the Church (from the Cross He spoke: ”Woman behold your son,” see John 19:26) and after her assumption into Heaven with her intact soul, body and spirit (no citation, but death and decay are a consequence of sin, and Mary was never subject to it), she was crowned as Queen of Heaven (Maria Augustissima Regina Imperatrix Animarum).
Just imagine the jealousy, hate and fear of Satan for ’the Woman,’ LOL.
To conclude, let's honour Mary, following Jesus in His obedience to the fourth commandment (Ex 20:12), by repeating the Biblical testimony about her and asking for her intercession:
”Hail Myriam, Full of Grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Myriam, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and in the hour of our death; in the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit” Fiat!
Trulyυανγλιoν (Uangelion, good news), salud! {;-)
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