the-glories-of-mary

588 GLORIES OP MARY
thee, receive the last farewell from me tny deaf
mother, and receive my heart which I leave bur
ied with thee. The Virgin, says St. Fulgentius,
earnestly desired that her soul should be buried
with the body of Christ.* And Mary herself
made this revelation to St, "I
Bridget: can
truly say, that at the burial of my Son, one
sepulchre contained as it were two hearts."f
Finally, they take the stone and close up in
the holy sepulchre the body of Jesus, that
great treasure, greater than any in heaven and
on earth. And here let us remark, that Mary
left her heart buried with Jesus, because Jesus
was all her treasure: "Where
your treasure is,
there will your heart be also." J
And where
shall we keep our hearts buried ? With creat
ures ? In the mire ? And why not with Jesus,
who, although he has ascended to heaven, has
wished to remain, not dead but alive, in the
Oh
most holy sacrament of the altar, precisely in
order that he may have with him and possess
our hearts ? But let us return to Mary. Before
quitting the sepulchre, according to St. Bonaventure,
she blessed that sacred stone, saying:
happy stone, that doth now inclose that body
which was contained nine months in
my womb,
I bless thee, and envy thee;
I leave thee to
guard my Son for me, who is my only good, my
only love. And then turning to the eternal
* Animam cum corpore Christ! contumulari Virgo vehementer
exoptavit.
t Vere dicere possum quod sepulto filio meo quasi duo corda in
ano sepulchre fuerunt. Rev. 1. 2, c. 21.
$ Ubi thesaurus vester esU ibi et cor vestrum erit Luc. xii. 34.