Wednesday,
December 20, 2017
3rd Week of Advent
1st Reading: Is 7:10–14Gospel: Lk 1:26–38
In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth. He was sent to a young virgin who was betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the family of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. The angel came to her and said, “Rejoice, full of grace, the Lord is with you.”
Mary was troubled at these words, wondering what this greeting could mean. But the angel said, “Do not fear, Mary, for God has looked kindly on you. You shall conceive and bear a son and you shall call him Jesus. He will be great and shall rightly be called Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the kingdom of David, his ancestor; he will rule over the people of Jacob forever and his reign shall have no end.” Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be if I am a virgin?” And the angel said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore, the holy child to be born shall be called Son of God. Even your relative Elizabeth is expecting a son in her old age, although she was unable to have a child, and she is now in her sixth month. With God nothing is impossible.”Then Mary said, “I am the handmaid of the Lord, let it be done to me as you have said.” And the angel left her.
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life
Experience)
Although Mary did not understand perfectly what was in store for her after the Annunciation, she placed her life in the hands of God. Yes, she asked for clarifications. “How can this be since I do not know man”. The Angel patiently explained to her that she would conceive by the power of the Holy Spirit. Still, this sounded Greek to her. What is admirable of the Blessed Virgin Mary is that when her understanding failed, she allowed faith to take over. And so she said “yes” to the proposal of the Angel, trusting fully in the wisdom of God.
Here lies her greatness: her complete trust in God. This brought her to perfect communion with God at all levels. She carried Jesus physically in her womb; what communion could be more perfect than that? Isn’t the womb of a woman closest to the human heart? At the emotional level the communion was also perfect because she kept and pondered everything about Jesus in her heart. At the level of the human will, this communion was solidly grounded as she lived out her instruction to the disciples at Cana when she said, “Do whatever he tells you”. In Mary we learn that complete trust perfects Communion with God. By that perfect communion, she was found worthy to be the vessel of the incarnate Son of God!– (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM.
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