As
it was manifested to Sister Mary of Jesus, Prioress of the convent of the
Immaculate Conception in Spain;
The first order of creation was that, after God recognized
who and what He was, the willingness to communicate himself out was there. He
would like to share himself out with love greater than one can imagine.
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| Sister Mary, Prioress of the convent |
The second order of was to confirm and determine
the object and intention of this communication of the Divinity, namely, that it
should redound to his greater glory and to the exaltation of his Majesty and
the manifestation of his greatness. This his own exaltation God saw as the end,
for which He would communicate Himself, make Himself known by his liberality in
the distribution of his attributes, and set in motion his Omnipotence in order
that He might be known, praised and glorified.
The
third order consisted in selecting and determining the order and arrangement,
or the mode of this communication, so as to realize in an adequate manner the
most exalted ends. The order namely, which it is proper should be maintained in
regard to the communications of the Godhead and its divine attributes; so that
this activity of the Lord may have its proper reasons and objects, and so that
it might proceed with the most beautiful and admirable sequence, harmony and
subordination. In this instant was decreed first of all, that the second person of the trinity (Jesus Christ) should assume flesh and should become visible. The perfection
and the composition of the most holy humanity of Christ our Lord was decreed
and modeled in the divine intelligence. Secondarily, also were formed the
ideals of the rest of men in imitation of the First The divine mind prearranged
the harmony and adornment of the human nature composed of an organic body and a
vivifying soul, endowed with faculties to know and enjoy its Creator, to
discern between good and evil, and with a free will to love that same Lord.
The
fourth order was to determine the gifts and graces, which were to be conferred
upon the humanity of Christ, our Lord, in union with the Divinity. Here the
Most High opened the liberal hands of his Omnipotence and his other attributes,
in order to enrich the most sacred humanity and the soul of Christ with the
highest possible plenitude of his gifts and graces. When the stream of his
gifts flowed toward the humanity of the Christ, communicating to it all the
infused science, the grace and goodness of which his blessed soul was capable,
and which fitted that Being, which was to be God and true man, and at the same
time, the Head of all creatures capable of grace and glory, in order that from
this impetuous stream they might partake in the manner in which it afterwards really
happened.
To
this order also, and, as it were, in natural sequence, pertain the decree and
predestination of the Mother of the Jesus Christ; for here, was ordained that
pure Creature before aught else whatever. Thus, before all other creatures, was
She conceived in the divine mind, in such manner and such state as befitted and
became the dignity, excellence and gifts of the humanity of her most holy Son.
To Her flowed over, at once and immediately, the river of the Divinity and its
attributes with all its impetuosity, in as far as a mere creature is capable
and as is due to the dignity of the Mother of God. In my admiration I can say
with St. Dionysius the Areopagite: “If faith would not instruct me, and if the
understanding of what I see would not teach me, that it is God, who has
conceived Her in his mind, and who alone could and can in his Omnipotence form
such an image of his Divinity, if this all were not present to my mind, I might
begin to doubt, whether the Virgin Mother contain not in Herself Divinity.”
