These
past couple of days these blog posts have talked about consecration.
Being
made holy.
Us
being made holy.
Christ,
the holy one.
But
Mary,
Mary
has really special and unique roles in this idea of consecration,
of
being made holy.
Mary
is consecrated.
She
is holy.
She
truly is the model of consecration.
Her
life is lived in faithfulness to the covenant of God.
Her
fiat,
Her
‘yes’ and
Her
constant surrender to God
show
her complete obedience to God.
She
has a unique role in the idea of consecrated,
of
holy.
She
herself carried Holy in her womb.
She
herself was a holy place,
a
sacred place,
holding
the Consecrated One.
“She becomes herself a uniquely ‘holy place’, a new
Arc of the Covenant bearing the Consecration of the universe, Jesus Christ. She
is the first of the consecrated in the Consecrated, sharing as none other in
the redemptive Consecration wrought by Her Son.”
Montfort
believed Mary to be the perfect model of consecration.
In
his eyes, no one responds more fully to God’s call to share in holiness.
It
is through Her Immaculate Conception that She is the perfect model of
consecration.
“When the time appointed for the redemption of
mankind had come, Eternal Wisdom built Himself a house worthy to be His
dwelling place. He created the most holy Virgin, forming Her in the womb of St.
Anne with even greater delight than He has derived from creating the universe…the
torrential outpouring of God’s infinite goodness which has been rudely stemmed
by the sins of men since the beginning of the world was not released
precipitately and in full flood into the heart of Mary. Eternal Wisdom gave to
Her all the graces which Adam and all his descendants would have received so
liberally from Him has they remained in their original state of justice. The
fullness of God… was poured into Mary insofar as a creature is capable of
receiving it.”
Mary
provides us with this
perfect,
lasting,
holy
example of
how
to live a life consecrated to the Consecrated One.
She
herself,
consecrated
from birth,
carried
the Consecrated,
and
lived a perfect life of consecration
truly
is the model for the consecrated life.
For
the life of Holy.
A
life dedicated to the Consecrated One.
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This Lenten blog series is based upon St. Louis de
Montfort's writings. Unless otherwise noted, all the phrases in quotation marks
are taken from the book Jesus Living
in Mary.
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