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BVM's Chastity


Today the Mass is that of the 17th Sunday after Pentecost, because Sundays are 2nd class feasts of our Lord Jesus Christ, which have precedence over the 2nd class feasts of Our Lady, but I would like to say a few words concerning the Blessed Virgin Mary, because the feast of her Seven Sorrows fits very well after that of the exaltation of the Holy Cross. I do recommend that you pray often the ¡°sequence¡± of that feast, i.e. the hymn between the Alleluia and the Gospel: the Stabat Mater.


What are the great virtues of the Blessed Virgin Mary? One of her very first virtues is precisely her virginity. This is the title that is most commonly given to her: the Blessed Virgin, the Virgin Mary; she is ¡°THE Virgin¡±. Virginity has two aspects: the common aspect of chastity and the special value of virginity.


Chastity is a virtue and is good because it consists in the control of the body by the mind, the control of the emotions by the spirit, the due submission of the emotions to the spirit, in the domain of purity. That which makes the greatness of human nature is our reason, our mind: by it we are above all the other animals; if we compare our body with theirs, we find animals that have a better sight (e.g. eagles), a better hearing (some animals can hear in the wind some far-away threats), a better smelling (think of dogs that recognise people by smelling them¡¦), some run faster or are stronger, etc. But we surpass all of them by our reason, by which we make telescopes and microscopes, radars, or very precise chemical analysis, trains and planes that are faster than all animals, or tanks that are stronger than all of them, etc. If the highest faculty in man is our reason, it is most reasonable that it should dominate within us over all our emotions and actions. It is most unreasonable that our highest part be the slave of our lower part; it is most disorderly that modern man use his reasons to make tools to satisfy his lust (contraception, pornography, etc.)! Order goes with harmony and beauty: chastity gives the real beauty to a soul; modesty is the shining of the beauty of the soul over the body.

Now chastity receives its name from ¡°chastising¡±, because in man after the original sin there is need to chastise the body in order to arrive at this control of the mind over it, there is need of mortification and self-denial. Now our Lady did not have original sin, and for her that control was easy and more perfect (without hesitations or weakness).

But her chastity reached a much higher level: that of virginity. What is praiseworthy there is consecrated virginity: the fact to dedicate oneself entirely to God: ¡°the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit¡± (1 Cor. 7:34).

The Church¡¯s teaching is that marriage is good, but consecrated virginity is better. The three Evangelical Counsels (poverty, chastity and obedience) are a better way to follow Christ; it is an ¡°angelic¡± life, as the Angels do not own any material possession and are detached from all sensual pleasures; it is already a beginning of the everlasting life: ¡°they that shall be accounted worthy of that world, and of the resurrection from the dead, shall neither be married, nor take wives¡± (Lk. 20:35).


Virginity goes with innocence: our Lady is virgin not only in body, but also in soul: she is perfectly innocent, perfectly immaculate since her conception! She has reserved herself entirely for God in all domains from the very beginning of her life. Her example, the pattern she gives us, is most useful for us especially in this modern world, which is corrupt by so much impurity. She shows us that, by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, purity is possible, even in its highest degree. She attracts many souls to the following of Christ in this perfect way. Let us pray to her for many holy vocations. Another virtue of the Blessed Virgin Mary is her Faith: ¡°blessed art thou that hast believed, because those things shall be accomplished that were spoken to thee by the Lord¡± (Lk. 1:45).


Virginity and faith are connected: the Church is both virgin and mother, as Our Lady: the Church is virgin in her faith because it is uncorrupted, unmixed with error; and the Church is mother by giving us life in Baptism; thus St Paul says: ¡°that Jerusalem, which is above, is free: which is our mother¡± (Gal. 4:26): holy mother the Church.


The Faith of Our Lady is her perfect response to the Revelation of God, both in the Old Testament, and to the Angel (and later to our Lord¡¯s own words): she believed the announce of the angel, that she would become mother by the overshadowing of the Holy Ghost, without the work of man. Of course when she found herself pregnant while still being virgin, she had a wonderful confirmation of her faith – and even more when that virginity was further sealed by the miracle of the virgin-birth, i.e. that she remained virgin during and after the very birth of Jesus at Christmas. Yet her faith was tested, especially at the foot of the Cross: when seeing Jesus as abandoned by God, and even hearing Him saying ¡°My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?¡± (Mt. 27:46), yet she did not waver in her faith, she still believed that He was the Son of God!


Faith is the first step in justification, because it is the subjection of the supreme part of ourselves to God, of our reason to God. It is most reasonable for us to do so. ¡°The just man liveth by faith¡± (Rom. 1:17).


That means, the just man lives in the light of faith, under the light of the teachings of God. Our Lady constantly lived in that light, aware of the Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ and constantly adoring Him in spirit, and receiving His words truly as words of God: ¡°Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart¡± (Lk. 2:19).


Another beautiful virtue of Our Lady is her obedience. Her whole life is a constant Fiat, yes to God: ¡°Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word¡± (Lk. 1:38).


St Augustine and St Gregory say that obedience is the mother of all virtues. It was the great virtue of Mary, and that which she teaches to us, like her testament to us. Indeed the holy Gospel recalls seven words of Our Lady, seven occasions in which she spoke: the last words of our Lady recorded in the Gospel are like her testament: she spoke them at Cana to the waiters, somehow forcing the hand of Our Lord to do the miracle of Cana: ¡°Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye¡± (Jn. 2:5).


All these virtues of Our Lady have something in common: perfect submission to our Lord Jesus Christ, and in this consists her deep humility. In spite of all the marvellous gifts she had received from God, she did not exalt herself, but rather humbled herself and was therefore exalted by our Lord. When she was told by the Angel that she was chosen to become the mother of the Saviour, she did not boast but offered herself to be ¡°the handmaid of the Lord¡±! Humility loves to be hidden, and our Lady was as hiding during the public life of Our Lord except when He was despised and rejected: then she came forward to share in his humiliations at the foot of the Cross, which we celebrate today.

One could speak also of her prudence, her mercy, her meekness, her fortitude, her wisdom, etc. ¡°de Maria numquam satis – of Mary, one can never say enough¡± says the age-old wisdom of the saints. But she is not only the most excellent fruit of the Redemption wrought by our Lord Jesus Christ, she has received these gifts and those graces not only for herself, but also for us; she has received the power of a mother, to give to the children that which the father has earned. She is the mediatrix of all graces, she gives us in abundance those graces our Lord has earned on the Cross, so that we could imitate her better, and thereby please Our Lord better.


 Thus my dear brethren, let us today contemplate all these virtues of Our Lady, especially her virginity, her faith, her obedience and let us beg her to guide us on this way to heaven to sing the glory of God, of her Son our Lord Jesus Christ with the Holy Ghost, in her company and that of the saints for ever and ever. Amen.  

  
Fr. F. Laisney