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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
36. The woman went on her way, because the holy Church preached the word of faith to the Gentiles. Which the apostles also say, threatening the Jews: "Because you judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles" (Acts 13:46). She is rightly called a woman when she departs, because through the preaching of the Redeemer she was about to produce among the Gentiles the fruit of great fruitfulness. …
Bede
And the woman went on her way, and ate, etc. And the Church prospered in the hope of heavenly compassion, raised in the faith and love of Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the life; refreshed by the consolatory and comforting feasts of sacred Scripture, it could not thenceforth be changed by any pressures or blandishments from the true God whom it once acknowledged into diverse errors. For you have prepared, she says, a table before me in the presence of those who trouble me (Psalm 23).
Bonaventure
The blessed Virgin is venerative and restorative of the honor taken from God, and a mother consenting that Christ be offered as the price. Therefore "she shall be praised." Anna was praised because she offered Samuel: whence it is said of her: "The woman went her way and ate, and her countenance was no longer changed." She offered her son to serve: but the blessed Virgin offered her son to be sacrificed. Abraham, you wished to offer your son, but you offered a ram! But the glorious Virgin offered her own son.
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