Mary was indeed a tabernacle for the Divinity (Elizabeth Scalia)

  Mary was created with the graces that would render her a fit Ark for the New Covenant, and not only for the time of Jesus’ gestation within her womb but throughout her entire life.

   This is a fact the Church might appreciate even more today than at any time previous, thanks to science and the discovery of microchimerism. We have learned that within the process of microchimerism, every baby conceived by a a woman leaves within her a microscopic bit of his or her cellular being, even if gestation is interrupted, and remains with her forever.

   Mary, then, was indeed a tabernacle for the Divinity – not for a limited time but for all of her life, as these invisible but real reserves of the Christ remained within her. Were Mary not be-graced by God for that very purpose of holy containment and development, she would have been crumbled into dust by the immensity of it.

   And this relates directly to the Assumption of Mary. In the Psalms we read: You will not suffer your beloved to undergo corruption (Psalm 16:10). Christ’s divine body did not undergo corruption, but ascended into heaven; it follows that his mother’s body, which contained the cellular components of that divinity – and a particle of God is God, entire – would not be permitted to undergo corruption either.

   It could not be otherwise. The God particle, commingled with humanity, necessarily preserves humanity and calls it to himself. This is Incarnational. It is Eucharistic, from the beginning.

   It is our life, conceived in light.

--Elizabeth Scalia              

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