Virginal Heart
Mary is truly
admirable in all her perfections and in all her virtues. But what is most
admirable in her is her virginal heart. The heart of the Mother of God is a
world of marvels, an abyss of wonders, the source and principle of all the
virtues which we admire in our glorious Queen: "All the glory of the
king's daughter is within." It was through the humility, purity and love
of her most holy Heart that she merited to become the Mother of God and to
receive the graces and privileges with which God enriched her on earth. These
same sublime virtues of her immaculate Heart have rendered her worthy of the
glory and happiness that surround her in heaven, and of the great marvels that
God has wrought in and through her.
Mary is admirable in
her divine Maternity because as St. Bernardine of Siena says, "to be Mother
of God is the miracle of miracles;' miraculum miraculorum.
When the angels
beheld their Queen and ours at the moment of her immaculate conception they
were filled with admiration at such fullness of grace and in their wonderment
exclaimed: "Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as
the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as any army set in array?" What then
must their rejoicing be, now that they behold in heaven all the marvelous
perfections of her Heart from the first moment of her life on earth until the
last?
Her Heart is a vast
sea of grace, a measureless ocean of perfections, an immense furnace of love.
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