The Story of the Virgin

Where did Angelus Silesius (+1677), the German priest and poet, dip his quill before he wrote: “… I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be”? Did he dip it in the story of the Virgin who became a mother to the great God Who “made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant” (Philippians 2:7)? These are words, these are greater than words, greater than poetry and all its ink and its pages, greater than the heart and all its beats and its thoughts…, these are words that can only be drawn from the angel’s visit to “a betrothed virgin” (Luke 1:27)! I am writing to you about the mystery, about Mary who is “clear as the sun” (Song of Solomon 6:10), the mother who is telling us today: “you are greater than you think. This is the will of God that you all be great, like the sun”!