[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: New Interpretations of the Holy Week Stories - Canada Province

[Brian Shaughnessy]

THE JUST ARE ALWAYS WISE

*Jesus says:*

The just are always wise, because, as friends of God, they live in His
company and are taught by Him, yes, by Him, Infinite Wisdom.

My grandparents were just and therefore they possessed Wisdom.  They could
quote *accurately *from the Book, singing the praises of Wisdom from its
context:  "She it was I loved and searched for from my youth:  I resolved
to have her as my bride".

Anne of Aaron was the strong woman of whom our Ancestor speaks.  And
Joachim, a descendant of King David, had not sought so much charm and
wealth as virtue.  Anne possessed a *great *virtue.  All holy attributes
joined together like a sweet-smelling bunch of flowers to become one
beautiful thing that was: this exceptional *Virtue*.  A real virtue, worthy
of being set before the throne of God.

Joachim had therefore married wisdom twice, "loving her more than any other
woman": the Wisdom of God enshrined in the heart of a just woman.

Anne of Aaron had not sought anything else but to join her life to that of
an upright man, certain that family joy lies in unrighteousness.  And to be
the embodiment of the "strong woman" she lacked only the crown of children,
the glory of the married woman, the justification of marriage, the one of
which Solomon speaks, as for her happiness she lacked children, the flowers
of a tree that has become one thing with the adjoining tree and obtains
thereof abundance of new fruit, in which the two good qualities blend into
one, because she never experienced any disappointment on account of her
husband.

Although she was now approaching old age and had been Joachim's wife for
many years, she was always for him "the spouse of his youth, his joy, his
most dear hind, the graceful fawn", whose caresses always had the fresh
charm of the first nuptial evening and sweetly fascinated his love, keeping
it as fresh as a flower sprinkled with dew, and as ardent as a fire
continuously kept burning.  Therefore, in their affliction, their childless
state, they spoke to each other "words of consolation in their thoughts and
troubles".

And eternal Wisdom, when the time came, besides teaching them in waking
consciousness, enlightened them with dreams at night, visions of the poem
of glory that was to come from them and was Most Holy Mary, My Mother.  If
their humility made them hesitant, their hearts trembled in hope at the
first hint of God's promise.  There was already certainty in Joachim's
words:  "Do hope...  We shall gain our favour from God by our faithful
love".

They were dreaming of a child:  they got the Mother of God.

The words of the book of Wisdom appear to be written for them:  "By means
of her I shall acquire glory before the people...  by means of her,
immortality shall be mine and I shall leave an everlasting memory to my
successors".

But to obtain all this they had to become masters of a true and lasting
virtue which no event marred.  Virtue of faith.  Virtue of hope.  Virtue of
chastity.  The chastity of a married couple!  They possessed it, because it
is not necessary to be virgins to be chaste.

And chaste nuptial beds are guarded by angels and from them descend
good children who make the virtue of their parents the rule of their lives.

But where are they now?  Now children are not wanted, neither is chastity.
I therefore say that love and marriage are desecrated.

--
aptYLJC,Twbd,ttM

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On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 5:16 PM Helena Burnstein via Sundaycommunity <
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