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아래 원고 파일:
A Marian Church by François Marc.doc
Plea for a Marian Church:
by François
Marc, S.M.
I would
like to plead for a Marian church:
not a
church that multiplies processions
or
blesses huge statues…;
rather a
church that “lives the Gospel after the manner of Mary.”
A Marian
church follows Mary into the mountains
going off
with her to encounter life.
She
visits men and women
and,
although things may appear to be sterile,
she is on
the watch for what is coming to birth,
for
possibilities,
for the
life which beats in things.
A Marian
church rejoices and sings.
Instead
of bemoaning her fate
and the
world’s woes,
she is in
wonder at the beauty
there is
on earth and in the human heart.
It is
there she sees the work of God.
A Marian
church knows she is the object of gratuitous love,
and that
God has the heart of a mother.
She has
seen God, a father standing in the doorway,
on the
lookout for what he fears unlikely, his son’s return;
she has
seen God throwing fatherly arms around the boy’s neck,
placing
the festal ring on his finger,
and
organizing himself the home-coming feast.
When she
pages through the family album,
she sees
Zacchaeus in his sycamore tree,
a woman
taken in adultery, a woman of Samaria,
other
outsiders, lepers, beggars,
and a
common prisoner on his execution stake.
So, you
see, a Marian church despairs of no one,
does not
quench the still smoldering wick.
When she
finds the abandoned on the side of the road,
wounded
by life,
she is
moved with compassion.
With
infinite tenderness, she tends their wounds.
She is
the safe harbor ever open,
the
refuge of sinners,
mater
misericordiae, the mother of mercy.
A Marian
church does not know the answers
before
the questions are asked.
Her path
is not mapped out in advance.
She knows
doubt and worry,
the night
and loneliness.
This is
the price she pays for the trust of others.
She takes
part in the conversation
but makes
no claim to know everything.
She
accepts that she must search.
A Marian
church lives in Nazareth,
in
silence and simplicity.
She does
not live in a castle.
her home
is like any other home.
She goes
out
to chat
with the other villagers.
She weeps
with them,
rejoices
with them,
but never
preaches to them.
Above all
she listens.
She does
her shopping, draws water at the well,
she is
invited when there is a wedding.
That’s
where she meets the people.
Many are
delighted to sit and rest awhile in her home.
There
they breathe in happiness.
A Marian
church stands at the foot of the cross.
She does
not take refuge in a fortress,
or in a
chapel,
or in
cautious silence,
when
others are being crushed.
She is
vulnerable, in her deeds as in her words.
With
humble courage,
she
stands with the most insignificant.
A Marian
church lets the winds of Pentecost come in,
the winds
that push outwards
and that
loosen tongues.
And in the
public square, in the marketplace
she is
there to proclaim her message.
Not to
hammer home a doctrine,
nor to
swell her ranks.
She says
that the promise has been kept,
the
battle won,
that the
Dragon has been thrown down forever.
But here
is the great secret
that she
cannot but whisper:
to win
the victory,
God has
surrendered.
True, we
are still in the ‘in-between time,’
the time
of human history.
And what
a sad history it is!
Yet,
every evening, at the end of evensong,
the
church sings the Magnificat.
For the
church knows where her joy resides.
And look:
God has
not found our world uninhabitable;
he has
not found uninhabitable the wounds of the world,
the
violence of the world, the wickedness of the world.
Precisely
there is where he meets us.
And
there, on the cross, we have seen it…
mercy,
the open
heart of our God.
It is
there, at the foot of the cross,
that a
people has been born
a Marian
people.
“Seeing
his mother, and near her the disciple whom he loved,
Jesus
said to his mother: ‘Woman, there is your son.’
Then he
said to the disciple: ‘There is your mother.’
From that
hour the disciple took her into his home.”
Brothers
and sisters, let us be this people.
Let us
take Mary into our home.
Let us go
in with her
into the
“humble and rending joy”
of loving
and being
loved.
And the
church will be in this world,
As St.
Therese of Lisieux said,
“a heart
radiant with love.”
Fr. Francois Marc gives us a beautiful vision of what the Church could be. It is our calling as Marists to live in such a way that the Church could show this Marian face more clearly to the world. In the coming months I would like to comment on this poem, in order to better understand our calling. For this is Mary’s way; this is the Marist way.
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