Part III : The Crown of Goodness : Chapter 4 : § 2.1-2

Chapter 4 : The Third Star or Splendour of the Crown of Goodness of the MOTHER OF GOD

She is a source of Favour for her children

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. Advancing the Favourites of the Holy Virgin : first effect of her Favour

 1   The experience of every century and of every nation teaches us that Favour is like a necessary movement of the royal spirit, revealing the altogether rare perfections that it receives from participation in the spirit of God. It makes known to us, furthermore, that there are three principal qualities involved. The first is the absolute Liberty or Liberality of the Prince, showing itself in a wondrous manner by the way that a creature is drawn into being from nothing so that the creature possesses nothing of himself but only what he has as a result of the Prince’s favour. In short, he is the Prince’s creature and handiwork, independently of his own merit and of any duty of Justice. The second quality is Power, which receives an unparalleled satisfaction in seeing the one he has raised honoured, esteemed and sought after by all. The third is Friendship, without which the Kings themselves would be unable to live. It is too great a strain for someone to be always showing forth the King’s majesty, sceptre in hand and crown on head, maintaining an expression ever imperious. They need to have someone with whom they can interact in a more relaxed manner and to whom they can unburden their hearts. 

These three causes each produce their different effects which in their own way facilitate the works of Favour, granting it the splendour and brightness which delight so powerfully the eyes and the hearts of those under the world’s spell. The first is exemplified by advancement, whether to honourable positions of State, or in material goods and commodities, or in marriage or in other ways. The second is the credit that they acquire through the Princes affection, so that there is no one who does not honour them on this account and who would not seek their help when it comes to obtaining a particular favour. The third is the familiarity and intimacy shown them by the Sovereign in his dealings with them and in the way he shares his most secret thoughts with them – this being a seal and unquestionable sign of Favour. I am confident that it will be displeasing neither to the mother of God nor to her favourites if we apply these three effects to them, particularly as I have already shown that Favour takes its origin in heaven, that its first idea is in God and that Favour is nothing other than a participation in the Royal inclination that God has to communicate Himself to souls.

 2   Let us start off by considering advancement, for no matter what effort the royal spirit might make, it cannot stop itself from favouring and promoting someone who has won royal approval. No sooner had God chosen Abraham as his Favourite[1] than He revealed to him in the heavens and on the seashore the image of his future greatness, promising to multiply his descendants so that they would be as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is by the sea shore, saying he would be head and father of a whole nation, and would become so great as to be the envy of the grandest Monarchs in the world. 

At the same time that God called to Moses from the burning bush[2] in order to speak with him, He made him Prince and Ruler of His people, He gave him power to work miracles, and He told him He was making him the God of Pharaoh[3]. A previous Pharaoh had looked with a favourable eye upon Joseph and told him[4] he would be superintendent of Pharaoh’s household and second-in-command of his kingdom, that all his subjects would honour and obey him, and that only in the kingly throne would Pharaoh be above him; he took his ring from his own hand, and gave it into his hand, he put upon him a robe of silk, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and he made him go up into his second chariot, the Crier proclaiming that all should bow their knee before him, and that they should know he was made Governor over the whole land of Egypt. 

Daniel’s fortune, if it can be called this, was similar, since Nabuchodonosor[5] made him Governor over all the Provinces of Babylon, as well as chief over all the Officers of the Crown and all the Wise Men of Babylon. The proud Aman enjoyed exceptional favour from King Assuerus[6] who set his throne above all the Princes that were with him. All the king’s servants bent their knees and worshipped Aman: for so the emperor had commanded them, only Mardochai did not bend his knee, nor worship him. Aman was so angered by this that he counted it nothing to lay his hands upon Mardochai alone: for he had heard that he was of the nation of the Jews, and he chose rather to destroy all the nation of the Jews that were in the kingdom of Assuerus. As he required an explicit decree from King Assuerus for this, he offered ten thousand talents to him (this would be equivalent to more than twenty four million pieces of gold). This demonstrates what fabulous wealth he had acquired through Favour.

Footnotes

[1] Gen. xii, xvii, xvii, xxii.

[2] Exod. iii. & iv. 

[3] Exod. vii. 1.

[4] Gen. xli.

[5] Dan. ii.

[6] Esther iii.

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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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