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Venerdì 31 Maggio 2024

The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Word for today
The Gospel of Luke 1:39-56

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The canticle of Mary is as sweet and enthusiastic in praising God’s deeds and loving faith as relentlessly lashing and dashing against the works of unrighteousness of men deceived by evil. Mary is the Queen at the service of the Prince of Peace, of Shiloh her Son Jesus, Son of God. At the same time Mary is the Queen Mother of humanity who fight Satan, the prince of darkness, by always smashing his head.
[...] The Magnificat contains a living source of divine wisdom offered in love with both hands to the people of God of any age, a source of wisdom which alone can free men from every satanic deception and defend them from oppression, because it reveals Satan's greatest trick against humanity, the most terrible of the simulations. Mary loves the Lord God and praised Him, by glorifying the light of Truth and power of his Justice, she bows to Him as servant of His authority and dominion. This is the way of love. Over the centuries, Satan has succeeded in creating an environment of ignorance and laziness by confusing poople’s hearts and minds which makes it possible, and perversely logically acceptable to believe and submit themselves to the completely wrong idea that reaching power and authority is a sign of being truthful and just. This is instead the way of terror. When people’s minds shine in the simple and obvious evidence that authority comes from truth and not truth from authority, it will be impossible, from that day onward, for any power to subjugate people, exploit and massacre them to their advantage. Mary sings the glory to God and at the same time reveals and inspires people and entire nations. She leads them to an higher level of awareness and to the desire to no longer serve man’s power as if it carries the truth, but to graciously bow to the truth of God as the only authority. Mary knows that every soul oppressed by ignorance, habit, fear and conventions, that does not bend before God’s tuth as a servant of love, will be kept on their knees with sore backs and souls, miserably enslaved to the game of the powerful and devastating enemy. When singing and reciting the Magnificat, man and the church assert that power has no truth but truth has power, and the truth is in God.
Three and one are the names of God that Mary, the symbol and image of the whole church, uses to describe her experience and her love for the Absolute. The first is Kyrios, the Lord of the world, is the Father, the Creator of the universe, the faithful Father, and loving providence. The second is Sotèr, the Savior of the world, the proper name of Jesus, the salvation made flesh, the Beautiful Shepherd, the Risen Christ, the Way, Truth and Life, who reveals the Father's face. The third is Dynatos, the Mighty Unpredictable, it describes the dynamis, the power that is not comprehensible, the powerful and imaginative Wind of God that pervades all life.  Always hidden and unpredictable The Breath of God, the Ruach that no one knows from where it comes and where it goes, the Paraclete. Aghios the Holy Holy Holy is the name of the Trinity which comprises in itself the only substance, one essence, the unique nature, the only God, the only vastness, the only eternity of God and his absolute and totally loving unit. Three are the names Mary uses for the only God in the trinity just as three are the names Mary uses to lash and crush Satan who is against life and man and the only enemy of the trinity.
Mary reveals three great evils that are the origin of all other evil: pride, corruption of power against the children of God and unjust distribution of wealth and resources of the earth. These are the three great evils which afflict humanity when people allow themselves to be ensared and convinced, individually and collectively, that power has the truth and that truth has no real power and authority.
As a mother, humanity turns to Mary with a constant frequency for every need and want, and Mary does not drop any requests or prayers of her children, even the smallest and humble. But guided by the light and wisdom of the words of the song, believing humanity could be inspired to make a prayer to Mary even more rich and powerful, capable and wide. In the song, Mary is revealed as the Servant of the Lord but also as the Lady and Queen against all evil, and then specifies, with unexpected accuracy, the three greatest evils that can bind and destroy humanity: pride against God, corrupted powers and unjust wealth. When inspired by the song, believers in Christ can add more power and be more effective in praying to Mary, to be defended and guided away from these three great evils, which are responsible for everyone else.
The Magnificat is more an invitation to pray and ask Mary for the grace to be freed from the origin of evil than the request to be rescued from all private and personal trouble. Mary leads us to change our way of begging for goodness, our way of thinking and conceiving salvation for ourselves and for all. If man learns to ask faithfully to Mary to be helped and healed from pride against God, for the deliverance from the corrupted power and unjust wealth,  humanity could know wonderful times in life.
At sunset, every day, during the singing of Vespers, the whole Church is united with Mary, and in this wonderful song glorifies God and his faithfulness.