Mary’s Inner World upon the Birth of Christ
December 27, 2011
THE LATE Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira wrote of the psychological experience of giving birth to Christ in this essay posted at Tradition in Action. He posed a very simple and obvious question: What were her thoughts? He wrote:
Before the Incarnation, Our Lady had a great union of soul with God and, therefore, a union with the Second Person of the Holy Trinity. But after the Incarnation, she began to have a different kind of union – the union of the God-Man with His Mother. Knowing this, we cannot think that Our Lady had no knowledge whatsoever of her Son until His birth and only entered into contact with Him then for the first time. She already had a very intimate and ardent union of soul with Him. Read More »