“We have here actually a double image: the image of the Incarnation of God’s Son in us and that of his divine slumber in our womb. Both images, however, run over into each other. The image of the overshadowing placed beside it leaves no cause to doubt whether the exterior image of falling into slumber is nothing else than a new image of the still more intimate indwelling. This becomes even clearer when, in the Commentary on ‘The Spiritual Canticle’, we see placed opposite each other the hiding of the Bridegroom in the womb of his Father and his discovery by the Bride while He slumbers in her own womb, through the power of the overshadowing that befell her. ‘Beloved’, thus calls the Bride to her Most Beloved, ‘Beloved, where are you keeping yourself concealed away?’ ‘Oh, glorious soul’, he thus follows, ‘now you know that your Lover, so sought for, lives concealed in your womb, do your best to remain concealed with Him. You will enjoy Him in your womb, and hold (him) entwined with the most tender love.'”
Bl. Titus Brandsma
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