THE WHOLE WORLD AWAITS MARY'S REPLY
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“Tearful Adam with his sorrowing family begs this of you, O loving Virgin, in their exile from Paradise. Abraham begs it, David begs it. All the other holy patriarchs, your ancestors, ask it of you, as they dwell in the country of the shadow of death. This is what the whole earth waits for, prostrate at your feet. It is right in doing so, for on your word depends comfort for the wretched, ransom for the captive, freedom for the condemned, indeed, salvation for all the sons of Adam, the whole of your race.” - St Bernard of Clairvaux, Homily On the Annunciation and Mary's Fiat, 4, 8-9: Opera omnia, Edit. Cisterc. 4 [1966], 53-54, from the Office of Readings for December 20
