Part II : The Crown of Power : Chapter 5 : § 4.2-3

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)

§ 4. The contract of marriage between Jesus Christ the King of glory and the Blessed Virgin His Spouse 

Promises for the future

 2   Accordingly, let us now move on to consider the promises involved in this marriage. When it was eventually concluded, several thousand years had already elapsed since the giving of the promises, at least by the parents of both parties, pending the necessary ratification of their mutual agreement. On the one hand, the Eternal Father had given His word almost since the beginning of the world and from time to time He had given men to understand that this continued to be His will. On the other, the ancient Patriarchs, Prophets and Kings of Judah, all ancestors of the Virgin, had also given their word and accepted in the name of their daughter the offer made by Heaven and the rich match that had been proposed. The unique desire of these beautiful souls, whom the holy and venerable Jacob called the everlasting hills[1], was to see in their own day these promises brought into effect and the engagement ratified. This was the focus of their wishes and the subject of their most fervent prayers. The principal actor in this matter, however, was waiting for the favourable moment to bring it to completion. 

I cannot conceal the satisfaction I derived from reading the words of Abbot Rupert[2] and I think they deserve a mention at this point. He is writing about the third chapter of the Canticle of Canticles[3] where it is written that there were sixty valiant ones, selected from amongst the most courageous in Israel, who guarded Solomon’s bridal couch, every man’s sword upon his thigh, because of fears in the night. After saying that this bridal couch was nothing less than a very explicit figure representing the Holy Virgin, he says:

It was not without reason that when St Peter drew his sword during his master’s passion, the Saviour immediately ordered him to put it back in its scabbard[4]; by this He wished to teach that the use of weapons had been permissible and even necessary under the old law, even for persons pledged to His service, but that now there was no longer need of them.

Before this, writes the pious Doctor, the devil was determined to stop by all possible means the marriage that Heaven was proposing to make with earth. Working through his perfidious ministers, he used all the forces at his command to stop the transmission of the seed of the Saints and in this way prevent the birth of the Virgin who had been chosen to fulfil God’s plans for the benefit of all men. The Holy Spirit foresaw this and chose from the beginning sixty valiant men capable of defeating the wiles of Satan by protecting with their drawn swords the nuptial couch of the divine Solomon from all dangers. They were ready and willing to risk their own lives in combatting all those scheming to prevent the entry into the world of this peerless Princess. 

These sixty warriors were the Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph; the leaders of the people: Moses, Aaron, Joshua and Caleb; the twelve judges of Israel; the High Priests: Samuel, Joiada, Zachary, Josedec, and his son Jesus; the Prophets: Elias, Eliseus, Isaiah, Jeremiah and the others; the Kings: David, Solomon, Ezechias and Josias; the Captains: Zorobabel, Mathathias, Judas, Jonathan, Simon and John Machabeus. Some used physical weapons, others spiritual ones, but the hearts of all were ablaze with zeal for God’s house. They performed miracles to protect the mystical couch of the true Solomon from the ambushes and attacks of enemies both visible and invisible; and despite all the efforts of Hell, they kept it safe so that in the end we might see the results of Heaven’s plan and the wondrous features of God’s Providence.

In this way the Great Monarch of the world, ever faithful to His promises, omitted nothing that might bring them to fruition, keeping alive men’s hopes for the happiness that these promises would bring to them.

Footnotes

[1] Gen. xlix. 26.

[2] Lib. XXXI in Cant.

[3] Cant. iii. 7-8.

[4] John xviii. 10.

The consent of the parties

 2   Now we need to consider how the marriage was realised, remembering that nothing was done without the express consent of the parties.

During this time, writes the blessed Peter Damian[1], Holy Sion groaned at the sight of its deserted streets, its inhabitants fallen into ruin, its lights extinguished, the earth being accursed, men condemned and all creatures suffering in their different ways. During this time, it seemed that God was concealing this general confusion but this was not in fact the case. He was thinking most carefully about how the problems were to be resolved, waiting always for that time decreed in the eternal council of His Majesty. Finally that moment has arrived, for the future Spouse of the divine Word has now attained an age making her competent to conclude the marriage so desired between earth and Heaven. Her future Spouse has been contemplating her and He finds her so beautiful that He can no longer hide His love; He loves her with a love which is no less chaste than sincere and He can no longer hear talk of postponement. He summons once more His council and deliberates with the Blessed Spirits upon how the empty Angelic seats will be filled, upon the redemption of men and the restoration of the elements. To their great astonishment, He shows them wonders concerning the manner in which He wishes to effect the redemption of men. At the same time, the most sacred name of Mary is drawn out of the treasure of the Divinity and His Majesty explains that through her, in her, from her and with her, everything is to be restored; and just as at the beginning nothing was done without Him, in the same way nothing will be restored without her. At the end of the council, a credential letter is given to the Archangel Gabriel who bears for the new Spouse what is substantially a new manner of salvation, the Incarnation of the Redeemer, the way that must be followed for the redemption of men, the plenitude of grace, the excellence of glory and the sublime highpoint of joy for the inhabitants on Earth and in heaven.

Thus speaks this most excellent Doctor.

Footnotes

[1] Serm. in Annuntiat. B. Virg.

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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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