Part II : The Crown of Power : Chapter 6 : § 11.3-4

Chapter 6 :  The Fifth Star or Splendour of the Crown of Power of the MOTHER OF GOD

She is the Mother of the world to come and Redeemer of our race

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)

§ 11. The hope of recourse : the fifth fruit of mankind’s restoration by the Blessed Virgin

 3   Now try to picture that great tree which the Prophet Daniel saw in a vision[1]. Can you see it, this fruit tree with its massive spread and height, breathtakingly beautiful, covered in leaves and laden with fruit? Can you see all the birds of the air perched amongst its branches and all the beasts of the earth sheltering in its shade? Do you hear the voice from Heaven which cries out: Cut down the tree, right to its roots![2] Do you notice how suddenly the tree loses its branches? Can you hear the sounds of the axe below? Do you wonder at this coppiced forest of shoots growing from its branches? Focus especially your gaze and your thoughts upon this trunk which is going to be felled to the ground, and with its weight will crush everything that was living under its branches and in the shade of its leaves.

 

Then, what would you say if after a certain time you were to see it standing tall once again, but more beautiful, more green and more pleasing than before, with just as many and more creatures not only of the air but also of the earth, than there were before? I am very grateful to a modern Doctor[3] who argues that according to the mystical sense this tree represents none other than the first man when he was happily thriving in the earthly paradise, gifted with all sorts of extraordinary qualities, having under the branches of his protection, so to speak, not only the whole of his posterity but also the animals and other creatures that were subject to him; from this state he was soon cast out and brought down to earth by sin, where he would be left to wither away like a useless tree trunk, which can expect nothing more than the axe and then the fire. Divine Providence, however, did not wish to leave him without any recourse, and ordered that the root, namely the most sacred Virgin (according to the prophecy of Isaiah[4]), should be preserved in the ground, bud forth a new trunk incomparably more beautiful than the first, namely our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom a new life and new vitality would be communicated to men, who are His mystical branches, to restore life to them and make them bear fruit a thousand times more beautiful than before.

Footnotes

[1] Daniel iv. 7 et seq.

[2] Cut down the tree, and chop off the branches thereof ... Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth. Daniel iv.11-12.

[3] Benedictus Pererius, in locum Danielis cit.

[4] And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root. Isai. xi. 1.

 4   Great God of Heaven! What a tremendous consolation it was for the Blessed Spirits when they saw that our earth had found courage and that a noble root, with heavenly help, was producing a new tree whose crown reached up into the clouds, with its branches reaching out to the east, the west, the north and the south; and when they saw, as in a nursery, little buds shooting forth all around the trunk so as to repopulate Paradise! 

This is the moment I consider to be the birth of the world, far more so even than the moment when Heaven and earth were created; this moment was the starting point for our happiness and the realisation of our hopes; a moment when the Blessed Virgin took unto herself all the children of Adam as into her eternal fiefdom which no one can contest. How unhappy the man who will not allow himself to be raised by her unto eternity; but no matter what such a man might wish for, he will remain forever indebted to her for all the blessings that he enjoys only because of her. As for those who will have the honour of being transplanted into the Paradise of pleasure, we may say that for as long as they keep their verdant, springtime beauty, they will bless this trunk and this root from which they took their origin; and if they might ever wish to become still more beautiful and pleasing to the eye, then it will only make better known the greatness of her from whom they sprang.

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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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