Part II : The Crown of Power : Chapter 5 : § 2.1-2

Chapter 5 : The Fourth Star or Splendour of the Crown of Power of the MOTHER OF GOD

She was the Spouse and the Companion of the Saviour

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)

§ 2. The first reason which obliged the Saviour to take the glorious Virgin as His Spouse

Royalty : The first reason which obliged the Saviour to take the Holy Virgin as His Spouse

 1   This first reason is nothing other than the Royalty of the Saviour. It should be noted that there are two types of royalty in the Saviour: one can be called temporal and I shall cover this at greater length in chapter twelve. The other is spiritual and this is what I intend to address now. It is the Royalty which seems to be referred to by the prophet King David when he spoke in the person of the Messiah the following words: I am appointed king by him over Sion his holy mountain, preaching his commandment[1].  In a similar way, the Prophet Daniel[2] represented this idea by the little stone silently cut out of the mountain without hands and which cast down to earth the prodigious colossus that had a head of gold, a breast and arms of silver, a belly and thighs of bronze, legs of iron, feet part of iron and part of clay, and which denoted the four great kingdoms in the world that were to be broken and reduced to nothing by the spiritual kingdom of the son of the Virgin. Saint Paul emphasised the idea with a wonderful turn of phrase when he called it the kingdom of the son of his love[3], because love is there found first and foremost. The King of this Kingdom is the Prince of love; the fundamental law is love; love is the end to which everything leads; the officers in the Kingdom govern through love; the subjects obey in love; the principal benefit people reap is love; the only acceptable currency is love; the language spoken there is love; and what distinguishes a native from a stranger is love. Finally love orders and love obeys; love links hearts and affections; and love is the prize and reward for everything that is done in the Kingdom.

Footnotes

[1] Psalm II. 6.

[2] Daniel: ii.

[3] Coloss. i. 13.

 2  I must not forget what the same Saint Paul said elsewhere[1]: after this great conquering Prince has brought together all the subjects in His Kingdom, then He will deliver them up to his Eternal Father, as the fruit of his conquests; and then he will rejoice at being himself with his own subject to his Father, as to the sovereign King of Heaven and earth, who put all things under Him; then, O happy words! God may be all in all, meaning that God will serve for His elect and His subjects as a Church for prayer, as a palace for an abode, as a place of relaxation, as a library for studies, as countryside for walks, as a chair on which to be seated; He will serve them as provisions, furniture, inheritance, possessions and treasure; He will serve them as mother, father, husband and wife, children, friend, master and purveyor of goods; He will be for them a feast, harmonious music, refreshment, pastime and food; in a word everything that they could wish for and that they might never have hoped or desire to have. 

What a kingdom! What a King! What subjects! What a life! What joy! A Kingdom where all the subjects are themselves Kings, a Kingdom from which all want, all disunity, and all discord are banished far away, and where there is plenty, peace and love everywhere. This is a King who has never had and will never have anyone to compare with Him, whose hand is filled with magnificence, His mouth with fidelity, and His heart with goodness; who cherishes all His own with incomprehensible love, and who is Himself loved and honoured by them in a reciprocal way more than we could ever say or conceive. A King who is the honour of His kingdom, and whose pleasure is not to fight against but to make His subjects Kings who find all their glorify only in being such, and who consider themselves more honoured by this status than all the Royalties in the world. Here there is a life full of sweetness, of riches, of contentment and glory; a glory without end, a joy untroubled, riches possessed quietly and without fear, and sweetness free from envy. A life which no longer fears tyrants, which laughs at death, and which disports itself as in an ocean filled with the delights of eternal happiness. Here is a happiness which has God as a defensive and protective bastion, and which is nothing other than that through which God Himself is blessed. Let us call out one more time: What a kingdom! What a King! What subjects! What a life! What joy! How happy are the subjects of this Kingdom, whom the sight alone of such a King brings one continual joy to their lives!

Footnotes

[1] I Cor. xv. The French text includes a mixture of excerpts and paraphrases from verses 24-28.

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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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