Today is the celebration of the annunciation, in which the angel Gabriel invites the Blessed Mary to become the mother of Christ. Today inaugurates JEsus into history: Rejoice highly favored one.
The invitation of rejoicing inaugurates Jesus into history.
Did you rejoice today?
Pope Benedict as Cardinal Ratizinger asked the following question: "Why did Christ really want to be born of a virgin?
The meaning of all events, he continues, is the same: that salvation comes, not from human beings and their powers, but solely from God-from an act of his grace.
The mystery of the annunciation to Mary is not just a mystery of silence. It is above and beyond all that a mystery of grace."
The word of Isaiah, "Therefore the Lord himself will give you this sign:the virgin shall be with child, and bear a son, and shall name him Emmanuel, which means God is with us."
Why rejoice? God is with us!
Behold the handmaid of the Lord, may it be done to me according to your word. We now have a reason to surrender, for we do not surrender to emptiness but rather to Him who hears and He who is with us.
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