Here we discover something that must be considered attentively: Mary’s mediation implies that we rest in her as the place God has given us to enable us to contemplate, to go to the end in love. To recognise Mary’s mediation practically and divinely is to rest in her in our contemplation. It is to rest in her heart, a heart transformed by the fullness of charity, to rest in her wounded heart, in the seven wounds of her heart. If we do not rest in Mary’s heart, we only live by her moral mediation, by her mediation as advocate. We do not live by the proper mystery of Mary’s mediation, which is that of the cross, where in unity with Jesus, she communicates grace to John- grace in superabundance – as instrument of the Holy Spirit for him. Under the motion of the Holy Spirit who has been given to us by Mary’s prayer, by the deep unity between Mary’s royal priesthood and the priesthood of Jesus(Jesus and Mary become sources for us – instrumental sources yet sources – of the gift of the Holy Spirit), we understand that having received the Holy Spirit through Mary, we must rest in her since an instrument is one with the principal cause. Thus the Holy Spirit can ask us to have in our contemplation this attitude of littleness, of trust, of love for Mary, this attitude that consists in resting in her and even accepting to find no rest except in her. Jesus and the Holy Spirit can remain hidden, the Father can remain silent in order for Mary to be alone, so that we may place all our trust in her and rest in here alone, as we rest in the one who carries us and is the maternal source of divine life for us.
Father Marie-Dominique Philippe O.P. +2006
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