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| Our Lady Seat of Wisdom |
Oh yes, we Catholics have a whole day of the week in which we traditionally remember the Blessed Mother of God. Now here is the beginning of what I intend to make at least a weekly habit. On this day, I am going to talk about Mary, in all her greatness!
Seeing as we at LMB invoke her under the tittle Our Lady Seat of Wisdom, I thought a good place to start would be there!
Mary has numerous titles, so many that I haven't even heard them all, and I do love to read on Mary. One particularly strong devotion I have to her is to Our Lady Seat of Wisdom. That sadly isn't as common as it used to be, or at least that's the way I see it. Why do I have this strong devotion ? Well one reason is the old testament similarities I find in this honorable title of Mary, and I am definitely and Old Testament fan!
Do you remember David who was the great King of Israel... Yes the guy with the slingshot who took down Goliath! Well he was the second and greatest of the kings of Israel, the nation of God. Well David did quite a bit more then throw stones! (we'll come back to that). Well, following David his son, Solomon, was anointed king. Solomon is famous for several things, but most commonly is he referenced for his wisdom. There are stories which demonstrate just how wise he was (consult a bible for proof!). Solomon was allowed to ask God for anything he desired as a reward for the service he granted to the Father. Solomon chose wisdom! He could have chosen anything and yet he chose wisdom. Sounds like he was already pretty wise to me. So God granted Solomon great wisdom. Here it is vital to see that wisdom is a virtue, and thus a gift of God. Wisdom itself is of God for wisdom is really just the internal willingness to know the just will of God so that you might follow it. And so we have the great king Solomon, the son of David, enthroned on a man made chair from which he attempted to rule his kingdom justly and save his people.
Now do you remember Jesus?.... yes the One who died on a cross for you, and oh yeah He is God! Jesus is the Messiah, He is the Christ. Thus in English, He is the One who saves, and He is the anointed one! Jesus is the anointed King of Kings. Jesus is the perfect creation, the Son of God, the eternal High King. Jesus is also the Son of David, for through David's descendants do we arrive at Joseph the carpenter of Nazareth, the adopted father of the Christ. Jesus is famous for, well everything He did, there are stories just consult the Gospels! Thus the Father gave us Jesus, the Son of David and the only Son of God, who is enthroned in His great celestial Kingdom and on earth, from which He rules all things justly. It is through His love and the will of God that we are all saved. Since He is God, then wisdom is of His very nature. And like the wise Solomon, the wisdom of Christ too has a Chair from which He rules us, and that is His great Mother, Mary, Seat of Wisdom. Christ comes into this world through the only other perfect creation of God. Mary is the perfect example of creation, created for all times. She is the new creation of woman who led humanity to the fall, she is the new woman, the ideal woman, through whom redemption would come to this world. We are brought salvation through the same way we lost it. Eve the first woman gave the apple to Adam, and Mary (the New Eve) brings us Christ, True God and True Man, so that we may be saved.
Mary is the Seat of Christ, for Christ is wisdom. Mary is that which the Lord sat upon, Mary is that throne of creation which we all must approach in order to come before the austere presence of the King. Better yet, unlike Solomon whose man made chair embedded no part of Solomon's virtue, Mary is a perfect Creation by the Hand of God, who has all virtues of the Lord. Notice the wisdom of the Seat of Wisdom in her total acceptance of the Father's will, her great Fiat! "Let it be done unto me according to thy word", Christ is the Word made flesh, and Mary in her incredible wisdom accepts the will of the Father and in a perfect accord of wills, becomes the Seat from which the Son enters this world. Mary is so like the great David who composed hundreds of psalms to please the Father, but David often wrote out of repentance. Mary had no need of repentance for in her perfect wisdom she never faltered for the will of God and so her composition, the great Magnificat, would suffice for the eternal praise of God. Christ is mildly like Solomon, for He is the Son of David, Son of the King. But Christ is wisdom, Jesus is great King of Kings, and His Kingdom will reign forever. Unlike Solomon, Jesus sat upon a chair which we can still approach in humility and ask for wisdom as the Israelites went to Solomon, and this chair never decayed, it sits now at the foot of her glorified Son! Mary is the perfect Seat of Wisdom and so much more then a chair, she is a heavenly masterpiece.
One more thing... Mary rarely holds the infant Christ facing herself. Any image you see should depict Mary holding her Son facing outward, facing the people. That is because Mary shows us Christ, and so we go to her to see our Lord, for she is all to happy to bring us to Him. The Christ came to us through Mary now we go to Him the same way! (Just a bit of Marian apologetics)
So this is why I have such an affinity and devotion to Our Lady Seat of Wisdom. Everyone knows I can always use some wisdom. So I approach the merciful place from which the Lord came to us. For the Lord is above time and what once stood shall always stand if it be in His reign! I go to Mary! Out of Love for the Son, for the great King, I cannot help but love His most beloved mother and most perfect Seat. In Mary do I find wisdom, willingly and mercifully dispensed. The wisdom that is Christ is in His Mother. Mary I come before you, humble and sorrowful, begging for wisdom, so that I may be an instrument of the Father's will, so that my soul too may rejoice in God my Savior.
Trust in God...Trust in Mary.....Ad Iesum Per Mariam.....Our Lady Seat of Wisdom... ora pro nobis!
God Love you,
AMDG
Peter James d`Aquino
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