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At that moment,
when Our Lady received the love of the Holy Spirit as the wedded love of
her soul, she also received her dead son in her arms. (…) She trusted God,
she understood on earth that which many mothers will only understand in
heaven. She was able to see her boy killed, lying there (…), dead, and to
believe the Father’s cry: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased.”
God asks for extreme courage in love, the Bride of the Spirit must respond
with strength like His own strength. Our Lady did this. How much easier it
would have been for her, had she been asked to withdraw from common life,
(…) renouncing all “earthly joys,” bring forth Christ in cloistered
security. (…) But she was consenting not only to bear her own child,
Christ, but to bear Christ into the world in all men, (…) in all times (…).
She was consenting not only to give birth to Christ (…), but to give Him
death. In her brief historical life (…) the history of the world is
concentrated, particularly the lives of all the common people of the world,
who often do not know themselves that they are Christbearers, living the
life of the Mother of God.
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