Thank you Carmela for that beautiful meditation, and thank you all for this
lovely discussion. Merry Christmas and/or happy holidays to all’s!
On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 10:25 AM bklynkat56 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Fabulous and beautiful!The drawing is great as well...merry christmas!
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> -------- Original message --------From: Carmela Baeza <
> [log in to unmask]> Date: 12/24/18 6:49 AM (GMT-05:00) To:
> [log in to unmask] Subject: Article: Mary´s birth
> Ok, here it is... the link and the translation. Thank you again for your
> help.
> I have written this as I imagine it, from my catholic point of view... hope
> to step on no toes and to create nothing except tenderness and smiles.
> BTW the drawing inserted in the article is by my 16 year old daughter :)
>
> Hugs to all!
> https://www.larazon.es/familia/como-fue-el-parto-de-maria-KE21071748
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>
> A Christmas concert. Brightly lit choir in a dark auditorium, throats open
> and song flows out:
>
> O magnum mysterium,
>
> et admirabile sacramentum,
>
> ut animalia viderent Dominum natum,
>
> jacentem in praesepio!
>
> Beata Virgo, cujus viscera
>
> meruerunt portare
>
> Dominum Christum.
>
> Alleluia.
>
>
>
> I close my eyes and am immersed, soaked, surpassed by the music that fills
> all space. O magnum mysterium, o greatest of mysteries, that from atoms
> that form cells that form vocal chords inside a human person something so
> intense and sublime flows forth, infinitely more than the sum of its
> physical parts and yet impossible without them.
>
> And this draws me toward the mystery of the birth of Jesus, so intense and
> sublime, infinitely more than the sum of its physical parts and yet
> impossible without them.
>
> I envision Mary, *Beata Virgo, *sweat on her brow, eyes closed, walking in
> that swinging way of laboring women, holding tight to the goatherd´s wife,
> also village midwife, while they circle together around the dark stable. In
> the night, Mary´s labored breathing and the rustling of the goats´ hooves
> on the straw mingle into a gentle song. The contraction ends, Mary stops,
> listens intently. Beyond the door in the small patio, Joseph quietly and
> firmly recites the psalm: “Bless the Lord, my soul, O Lord my God, thou art
> very great; thou art clothed with honor and majesty. Who cores Himself with
> light as with a garment, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain? Who
> lays the beams of his chambers in the waters?’ Who makes the clouds his
> chariot and walks upon the wings of the wind?”
>
> Another contraction, more walking, more swaying, deep breathing. There is
> no physical fear in this daughter of Israel who has witnessed the births of
> her cousins, her neighbors, her friends. There is no spiritual fear in ths
> Virgin, for virgin is she who has given herself wholly to the Lord, body
> and soul, and she trusts. Mary feels her child turn and descend with every
> contraction in that ancient dance of sliding toward life. She sits at the
> edge of the manger, and the midwife kneels before her, awed by this mother
> who has closed eyes, who is lost in the birthing stupor in which she
> dreamily hears her husband´s voice, “…from on high You water the hills, and
> the earth is filled with the fruit of your labor.”
>
> A deep breath, a strong push, and Mary suddenly opens her eyes. A baby
> slides from her body unto the waiting linen on the midwife´s hands. A long
> joyful sigh when she sees her son, then a smile, than a laugh *O magnum
> mysterium*! Onto the world a new man has been born, greater than the sum of
> all his cells, greater than the sum of all the men… and yet so small that
> Mary takes him in her arms, she looks at him, smells him, kisses him,
> laughs again, throwing her head back with delight, not noticing when the
> midwife cuts the cord.
>
> And outside, she hears the smile in Joseph´s voice as he sings “Aleluya!
> Give thanks to the Lord, for He is great, because His love is eternal!”
>
> The midwife smiles and also whispers a psalm of thanks, while she helps the
> Virgin to lay upon a blanket on the straw. Mary, engrossed, offers her
> child the breast, and he searches for it and finds it with sure lips. The
> strong suckling frees the placenta, and for a moment the young mother looks
> away from her child as the midwife delivers the placenta, nodding. All is
> well. The woman covers them together and climbs up the ladder to her home,
> to gather the fine salt for the ritual sprinkling of the newborn. From a
> quiet corner, her own children lean out to gape at the mystery of birth
> that has happened in their home, under their feet.
>
> The stable gate opens shyly and Joseph peeks in. Mary looks up, smile,
> invites with eyes that brim with infiniteness. Joseph nears, venerating
> with every slow step, hugging from a distance, loving with firm
> companionship, offering the humble paternity of his strong hands. And Mary
> kisses him with her gaze. They both turn toward the Son that has been born
> in Bethlehem for all the world. Mary laughs with joy, and the infant Jesus,
> laying on her breast, bounces gently while he feeds.
>
> O magnum mysterium. Merry Christmas.
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> Dra. Carmela Baeza
> Médico de Familia, IBCLC
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