Part II : The Crown of Power : Chapter 9 : § 9.6-7

Chapter 9 The Eighth Star or Splendour of the Crown of Power of the MOTHER OF GOD

She commands the Church’s armies

Continuing our translation of the 1845 reprint of Fr François Poiré’s Triple Crown of the Mother of God (1643 French edition).

Notre Dame des Grâces, Cotignac.(Poggi, 2020)

§ 9. The third victory of the MOTHER OF GOD : defeating the Heretics, enemies of her Son and His followers

 6   Might it not be a consequence of her teaching role among the Apostles after the departure of her beloved son, when the enemy of man began to sow the cockles of error and heresy in the Church’s fertile soil? This is the view of the pious Abbot Rupert in his commentary on the fourth book of Canticles where the Saviour in His glory tries to wipe away the tears of His blessed Mother and, with the following words, to give His consoling response to the sighs she was sending up to Heaven and the desire she had to be with Him as soon as possible.

Most beloved Mother he says to her, the condition of this my Church – which is also thine – requires thee to stay a little longer on earth in order to reveal the firm links between the old prophecies and the preaching of my Apostles, to work several great miracles and to provide Religious instruction. I must tell thee that  factious men will arrive to bring division into our house, they will seek to make breaches in our defences, to raise questions about thine own virginity and about my Divinity. Amongst these will be the Carpocratians and the Valentinians, the Apollinarists, the Paulicians, the Jovinianists and other heretics such as these, all of whom will be seduced by the spirit of error which will fabricate hundreds of lies and deceptions. Accordingly, it is most necessary for thee to remain on earth for a time until the heresies of all these monstrous creatures are demolished by the truth that thou wilt speak and by the power of the proofs thou wilt supply, not only for those who write but also for others who preach the gospel.

This is why a little after this[1] the daughters of Jerusalem[2] press her so insistently to give them a description of her beloved and to set out his qualities in full – not so much for their own use (since they already had sufficient knowledge) – but to prevent the any twisting of the truth by unbelievers in the future.

Footnotes

[1] Rupertus, lib. V in Cant.

[2] Cant. v. 9.

 7   Finally, might it not be the case that the same truth which obliged the world to accept her as MOTHER OF GOD at the same time confounded all the errors being spread in opposition to the Saviour of the world during the first centuries of the Church? This is the opinion of St Bernard[1] who speaks of this in the Sermon he wrote on the mysterious vision featuring in chapter 12 of the Apocalypse: 

This woman, he says, is none other than she of whom it was promised to the world that she would crush the head of the ancient serpent, who in hundreds of ways and with hundreds of cunning stratagems kept watch for her heel, but without ever being able to inflict any harm; and whilst he was unable to do anything against her, she on the other hand was able single-handedly to confound the wickedness of all the heretics.

The heretics...

• who declared dogmatically that the Saviour had not taken our nature from the substance of this Virgin; 
• who proclaimed with their infernal hissing that she had not conceived and brought Him forth, but that she had simply encountered Him; 
• who blasphemed against her Son as well as against her saying that, after bringing forth the Word incarnate into the world, she had other children by her spouse St Joseph; and 
• who could not bear to hear her called MOTHER OF GOD. 

At the final reckoning, however, those who laid snares were themselves trapped; those who promised they would defeat her were themselves vanquished; those who wished to undermine and attack her qualities were confounded, and we will find that despite their efforts all generations would call her blessed. So here she now is in honour and in glory, notwithstanding what the Heretics tried to do; and there are all her enemies trampled beneath her feet, despite their every effort. Now can be heard, in all the highways and byways of the heavenly Jerusalem and everywhere in the Church Militant, songs of praise and joy, especially the following words: She hath triumphed! Long live the MOTHER OF GOD! Long live the general of His armies! Long lived the scourge and destroyer of Heresies! Long live Mary, who vanquished them single-handedly!

Footnotes

[1] Serm. in Signum magnum.

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The Virgin of Tenderness. >12th century.

SUB tuum præsidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen. 

 

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam.

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