Verba Virginis ad sponsam, qualiter parata est ad defendendum omnem viduam et omnem virginem et omnem coniugatam, quas videt in iusto proposito stantes et suum filium super omnia diligentes.
The Mother's Advocacy
The Mother of God promises her immediate intercession and support for mothers, widows, and virgins who seek to live for her Son.
"Listen," said the Mother of God, "you who ask God with your whole heart that your children might be pleasing to Him." Truly, such a prayer is pleasing to God. For there is no mother who loves my Son above all things and asks for that same thing for her children, whom I am not immediately ready to help in bringing her petition to effect. And there isn't a widow who steadfastly asks God for help to remain in her widowhood for the honor of God until death, but that I am immediately ready to help her fulfill her desire, because I was like a widow in that I had a son on earth who had no earthly father. There isn't a virgin who wants to keep her virginity for God until death whom I'm not ready to defend and comfort, because I am truly that very virgin.
The Spiritual Delight of the Son
Using the example of David as a contrast, the text explains how Christ finds pure, spiritual delight in the lives of those who remain faithful in their various vocations.
Don't be surprised: why do I say these things? It is written that David desired Saul's daughter while she was a virgin.✦ He even took her when she was a widow.✦ Furthermore, he also took Uriah's wife while her husband was still alive.✦ However, David’s desire wasn't without sin, but the spiritual delight of my Son, who is the Lord of David, is entirely without sin. Just as those three ways of life—virginity, widowhood, and marriage—were pleasing to David in a physical sense, so it pleases my Son to hold them in His most chaste and spiritual delight. It’s no wonder, then, that by helping them I draw their spiritual delight into the delight of my Son, because his delight is in them.
Read the original Latin
"Audi tu," inquit mater Dei, "que toto corde rogas Deum, ut filii tui placeant Deo. Vere talis oracio placita est Deo. Non enim est mater, que filium meum diligit super omnia et illud idem petit filiis suis, quin non statim parata sum iuuare eam ad effectum peticionis eius.
Nec eciam est aliqua vidua, que stabiliter rogat auxilium a Deo standi in viduitate ad honorem Dei usque ad mortem, quin non statim parata sum perficere voluntatem eius cum ea, quia ego fui quasi vidua, eo quod habui filium in terris, qui non habuit carnalem patrem.
Non est eciam aliqua virgo, que virginitatem suam desiderat seruare Deo usque ad mortem, quin non parata sum eam defendere et comfortare, quia ego sum vere ipsa virgo.
Nec mirari debes: Cur dico ista? Scriptum est enim, quod Dauid desiderabat filiam Saulis, quando fuit virgo. Ipse eciam recepit eam, quando fuit vidua. Insuper et habuit uxorem Vrie, quando vir eius vixit.
Attamen concupiscencia Dauid non fuit sine peccato, sed delectacio illa spiritualis filii mei, qui est dominus Dauid, est sine omni peccato.
Ideo, sicut iste tres vite scilicet virginitas, viduitas et coniugium placuerunt Dauid corporaliter, ita filio meo placet eas habere in sua delectacione castissima spiritualiter.
Ideo non mirum, quod iuuando traho earum delectacionem spiritualem in delectacionem filii mei, quia eius delectacio est ad ipsas."
Scripture echoes
- ↩1Sam.18.20-1Sam.18.27 — Now Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David, and they told Saul, and the thing was pleasing in his eyes. 1Sam.18.21 — Saul said, "I will give her to you, and she will be a snare to you, and the hand of the Philistines will be against you." So Saul said to David, "Today you may become my son-in-law a second time." 1Sam.18.22 — Then Saul commanded his servants, 'Speak to David privately, saying, "The king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you; now then, become the king's son-in-law."' 1Sam.18.23 — And the servants of Saul spoke these words in the ears of David, and David said, "Is it a light thing in your eyes to become the king's son-in-law, when I am a poor and insignificant man?" 1Sam.18.24 — And Saul's servants told him, saying, 'David has spoken these words.' 1Sam.18.25 — And Saul said, 'Thus you shall say to David: The king desires no bride-price, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king's enemies.' Now Saul planned to fall David by the hand of the Philistines. 1Sam.18.26 — And his servants told David these things, and the matter was pleasing in David's eyes to become the king's son-in-law. And the days had not yet expired. 1Sam.18.27 — David rose up and went, he and his men, and struck down two hundred of the Philistines. David brought their foreskins and counted them out in full to the king, so that he might become the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.
- ↩2Sam.3.13-2Sam.3.14 — He said, "Good. I will make a covenant with you. But there is one thing I require of you: You shall not see my face unless you bring Michal, daughter of Saul, when you come to see my face." 2Sam.3.14 — Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, saying, "Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself at the price of a hundred Philistine foreskins."
- ↩2Sam.11.3-2Sam.11.4 — David sent and inquired about the woman, and said, "Is this not Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam, wife of Uriah the Hittite?" 2Sam.11.4 — David sent messengers and took her. She came to him, and he lay with her, while she was purifying herself from her uncleanness. Then she returned to her house.
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