Submitted by superadmin on Fri, 08/13/2010 - 15:44
To
contemplate Mary in glory on this feast of the Assomption is to
contemplate God's humility revealed to us through the humility of a woman
in order to give birth to the Word here on earth.
We invite you to pray this text written by Benjamin Gonzalez BUELTA, sj.
Mary of Nazareth
Mary
was young, poor and a virgin,
from
a patriarchal village
a
peasant from Galilee -
a
suspicious place in the eyes of any true Isrealite.
When
Mary looked at herself
through
the eyes of the village folk
she
saw herself as small, insignificant
like
any other woman.
When
God, who is Love, contemplated Mary
in
his eyes she was unique.
Mary
grew accustomed to feeling God’s gaze upon her face
and
she learned to see herself through his eyes.
She
prepared herself for the impossible.
“How
can this be happening to me?”Luke 1:34
Can
there be new life without a man, but not without a woman?
The
impossible for Mary was possible for God.
Mary
was wholly virgin, free from all possessive human ties.
Pure
welcome of the very life that the Lord of History
wanted
to inaugurate on earth.
When
Mary said:
”Let
it happen to me according to your word”
the
Word began to take flesh in her womb,
a
new life from on high.
It
was welcomed so wholeheartedly that it became
totally
from below.
Mary
said: “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord
and
my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour”.
Her
yes set our earth-bound story free
and
the humanity of God in all its purity entered it
making
notthe slightest mark that would spoil
its harmony
or
sully the newness of its gifts.
Benjamin Gonzalez Buelta, sj.
(el rostro femenino del Reino, Sal Terrae)
(original in spanish)
Benjamin Gonzalez BUELTA is a Spanish Jesuit who
has many years of experience of living and working amongst the poor.
He lived in the Dominican Republic for 37 years where he was novice master and
provincial. At present he is the superior of all the Jesuits in
Cuba.
