Saturday: A Marian day
Saturday is the day blessed by God more than any other day. God blessed the seventh day (cf. Gn 2:3) and Mary is "blessed amongst women" (Lk 1:42). Saturday is the day sanctified by God, and Mary is also "full of grace" (Lk 1:28). It is right therefore to dedicate this holy day to the all-holy woman. Saturday is also the day when God completed the work of nature, and in Mary, God completed the work of grace.
Saturday is the day when God, after creating all things, rested (cf. Gn 2:2); but God's true "rest" is in Mary, of whom the liturgy applied what is said in Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) 24:8: my Creator rested in my tent or my tabernacle, because God rests in a soul who contents him, and that soul is Mary. Humbert wrote:
"Saturday and the Virgin are thus closely associated—Saturday is the day and Mary the place where God rests."
Blessed Humbert de Romans (d. 1277)
Adapted from In Quare b.Virgini sabbatum dicatur: De vita regulari, II
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