Mary is the
"Domus Aurea," the House of Gold
Therefore it is that Mary too is
called golden; because her
graces, her virtues, her innocence, her purity, are of that transcendent
brilliancy and dazzling perfection, so costly, so exquisite, that the angels
cannot, so to say, keep their eyes off her any more than we could help gazing upon any great
work of gold. But observe further, she is a golden house, or, I will rather say, a golden palace. Let us imagine we
saw a whole palace or large church all made of gold, from the foundations to
the roof; such, in regard to the number, the variety, the extent of her
spiritual excellences, is Mary.
But why called a house or palace? And whose palace? She is the house and
the palace of the Great King, of God Himself. Our Lord, the Co-equal Son of
God, once dwelt in her. He was her Guest; nay, more than a guest, for a guest
comes into a house as well as leaves it. But our Lord was actually born in this holy house. He took His
flesh and His blood from this house, from the flesh, from the veins of Mary.
Rightly then was she made to be of pure gold, because she was to give of that
gold to form the body of the Son of God. She was golden in her conception, golden
in her birth. She went through the fire of her suffering like gold in the
furnace, and when she ascended on high, she was, in the words of our hymn,
Above all
the Angels in glory untold,
Standing next to the King in a vesture of gold.
Standing next to the King in a vesture of gold.
By John Henry Newman
Taken
From Meditations on the
Litany of Loreto, for the Month of May
Photo Credit Cornelia Kopp
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