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Common of Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary - None Chapter from Ecclesiasticus 24:16

Sirach 24:12 describes Wisdom taking root in God's chosen people. The 'populus honorificatus' (honored people) is Israel, into which Mary was born. The 'hereditas Dei' (inheritance of God) is double: Israel was God's inheritance (Deuteronomy 32:9), and Mary inherited the promises made to Abraham. The 'plenitudo sanctorum' (fullness of saints) indicates Mary's place among - yet above - all the saints as their Queen. At None, the hour of death, this reading presents Mary as the one in whom Israel's hopes were fulfilled and from whom the Church's holiness flows.

LATINE
Et radicavi in populo honorificato, et in parte Dei mei hereditas illius, et in plenitudine sanctorum detentio mea. R. Deo gratias.
ENGLISH
And I took root in an honorable people, and in the portion of my God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of saints. R. Thanks be to God.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Common of Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary - None Chapter from Ecclesiasticus 24:16
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