The Crown of Excellence : Chapter 4 : § 1. 7-9

Chapter 4 : The Third Star or Splendour of the Crown of Excellence of the Mother of God

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)

§ 1. The first title, whereby the Holy Virgin is called the Daughter of the Eternal Father

How we are truly children of God

 7   Fifthly, to the previous favours should be added the protection God provides for His children which is so special that it is hard to understand it in holy Scripture. This protection is rooted in such painstaking care and unceasing effort on His part that His will is for us to trust Him absolutely for all our needs[1]; for our good Father knows what they are and is fully aware of everything we might need.

 8   Sixthly, from this a sweet feeling of trust spreads in our hearts. This can be felt more readily than put into words. It enables us to approach without fear Him who does so many good things for us and who could not bring Himself to turn us down when we ask Him for something. Indeed, says St Augustine[2], it gives us a powerful reason to feel trust when we see how, even before we have summoned the confidence to open our mouth with a request, we already enjoy the favour of being able to call God our Father. For what, pray tell, will this kind-hearted Father deny to those who have the honour of being called His children?

 9   Finally, all this leads towards extreme happiness for the children of grace, arising from nothing less than a right given to them by God to Paradise and to their true inheritance. This right is assured for them by letters patent from our Lord Jesus Christ, endorsed in the Parliament of His Church which is the pillar and ground of the truth.[3] The enjoyment of this happiness is reserved for them until they attain the age of perfection[4], and leave behind their childhood where they are still under the elements of the visible world, to borrow the words of St Paul.[5] The beloved Disciple is not mistaken when he writes that we have in truth the honour of being children of God[6], but the time has not yet arrived for us to take possession of this right in full. For the time being, it should be enough for us that we have a faithful Father who will help us benefit in things good for us and who will not be found wanting (if we do not let Him down first) when it comes to taking us in hand and helping us to take full account of our interests and reap all the fruits available to us.

Footnotes

[1] Matt. vi. 25-34.

[2] Lib. II de Serm. Dom. in monte, c. 8.

[3] I Tim. iii. 15.

[4] Until we all meet into the unity of faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ; Ephes.iv. 13.

[5] So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements of the world. But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law:  That he might redeem them who were under the law: that we might receive the adoption of sons. Gal. iv. 3-5.

[6] Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called, and should be the sons of God. I Iohan. iii.1.

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The Vladimirskaya Icon. >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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