MARY'S true greatness consists in having been chosen to be the
Mother of God. This sublime privilege, pre-eminently her own and
shared by no other creature, elevates her to an eminence more
exalted than has ever been granted tQ any other created being. It
raises her up near to the Godhead, and constitutes her the channel
of many blessings in the Old Law and in the New. Yet, not of course
with regard to her own person, but in relation to her divine Son.
Mary is the wonder of wonders, a new creation, a peculiar spirit
world. What man is in the order of nature, what Jesus Christ is in
the order of glory, such is Mary in the order of grace. She is the
crown, the high and middle point of the order of salvation. Mother
of God St. Peter Damian, in his eloquent sermon on the birth of the
Blessed Virgin, thus gives expression to his exalted conception of
the dignity of Mary's motherhood: "In what words may mortal man be
permitted to pronounce the praises of her who herself brought forth
that Divine Word who lives for all eternity? Where can tongue be
found holy and pure enough to eulogize her who bore the Author of
all created things, whom the elements praise and obey with fear and
trembling? If we wish to extol a martyr's heroism, to recount his
acts of virtue, to describe his devotion to his Saviour's cause and
honor, facts which belong to the province of human experience
supply us with words and circumstances. But when we undertake to
write the glories of the Blessed Virgin, we enter upon new, unknown
ground-on a subject transcending all human effort. We fail to find
words suitable to portray her sublime mysteries and prerogatives.
"What power of intellect is able to explain the mystery of the
Creator's coming forth from His own creature? "In the virginal womb
of the humble maiden is conceived the Eternal, He whom the whole
universe cannot contain. In the arms of an earthly mother, the
Infinite lies a helpless babe. Yet He it is who, equal to the
Father, supplies existence to all creation, who by His omnipotence
and authority stills the storms at sea, supplies to the mighty
rivers their inexhaustible sources of water, and yet is content to
be nourished with the scanty sustenance that His lowly Mother can
supply. No human discourse can be found worthy and competent to
describe the glories of her from whom the Redeemer between God and
man was pleased to assume His sacred body and blood." All the great
and glorious deeds performed in God's honor and to man's benefit
cannot be compared with what Mary has done for us.
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