{"id":20108,"date":"2019-09-08T05:43:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T03:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/?p=20108"},"modified":"2019-09-07T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T13:45:09","slug":"nativity-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/nativity-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u201cGod has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth\u201d Ps. 73:12. \u201cLet the earth bud forth and bring forth a Savior.\u201d Is 45:8<\/strong><\/p>\n

The scandals that rack the Catholic Church from top to bottom today are only the rotten fruits of a prior interior state of existence. It is our spiritual lukewarmness that leaves Baptism sterile, corrupts sanctity, and becomes faithless to Christ.<\/p>\n

God\u2019s overall plan for mankind was not foiled when Adam sinned, and God had to condemn him to return to the earth from which he was taken. Although man had crashed like a powerful rocket, or had exploded like a fine-tuned engine, God would not change His plan. We mustn\u2019t think of His plan for man as a form of a linear existence, as a line from the earth to some regions above, but a real state of existence wherein two orders of things would be held together in one. God\u2019s plan was \u2013 and still is \u2013 that the earth would be man\u2019s habitation and that man himself would be God\u2019s temple. The earth held man\u2019s body, man\u2019s body held his soul, man\u2019s soul was God\u2019s temple.<\/p>\n

The Nativity of Mary is the Restoration of this order of things. Although fallen man could rise above sin to obey God\u2019s grace, he remained stained. To work \u201csalvation in the midst of the earth\u201d, God made a \u201cnew earth\u201d in Mary, in order to create a \u201cnew heavens\u201d by the Incarnation of Christ. By Mary\u2019s holy Nativity rooted in Her Immaculate Conception. She became the foundation of the new heavens, so that the new man Christ would be not a simple temple, but God Himself living among men on earth, His Holy Divinity united to His Humanity in the unity of His Divine Person. Since His Humanity was taken from Mary, it was taken from the earth, and thus from the earth Salvation was wrought on the earth.<\/p>\n

If we look closely at Mary\u2019s Nativity, we see there the example of our own life, work and apostolate. Her privileged birth, her uninterrupted growth in sanctity, Her vocation to the divine maternity and Her faithful cooperation with Christ, is the model of the Christian life.<\/p>\n

Mary\u2019s privileged birth is reduplicated in our Baptism. Her uninterrupted growth in sanctity is the law of the New Testament, to obey the inspirations of Grace, always leading us to greater sanctity. Her vocation to the Divine Maternity is the counterpoint of our vocation to be fruitful members of the Mystical Body of Christ. Her faithful cooperation with Jesus in all His Mysteries is fidelity to the little sacrifices we must perform to do our daily duty. Ave Maria!<\/p>\n

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