Friday, December 21, 20183rd Week of Advent
1st Reading: Zep 3:14–18a (or Song 2:8–14)Gospel: Lk 1:39–45
Mary then set out for a town in the Hills of Judah. She entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leapt in her womb. Elizabeth was filled with holy spirit, and giving a loud cry, said, “You are most blessed among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb! How is it that the mother of my Lord comes to me? The moment your greeting sounded in my ears, the baby within me suddenly leapt for joy. Blessed are you who believed that the Lord’s word would come true!”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in
the Assimilated
Life Experience)
“When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leapt in her womb”. The power of Mary’s greeting made Elizabeth exclaim: “You are most blessed among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb! This power was not Mary’s own. She derived it from God who created all things and who is the prime mover of all beings. Here we get an echo of what happened when God the Father uttered the creative words “Let there be life, etc.” At his words the world became awash with life as everything came to life.
It was God who created the universe and the human race. Modern science denies this in favour of the Big Bang Theory. But to stop at scientific theories like the Big Bang theory is to settle for an efficient cause, not the proximate cause. In Ramos vs. C.O.L. Realty proximate cause is defined that acting first and producing the injury, either immediately or by setting other events in motion, all constituting a natural and continuous chain of events, each having a close causal connection with its immediate predecessor, the final event in the chain immediately effecting the injury as a natural and probable result of the cause which first acted, under such circumstances that the person responsible for the first event should, as an ordinary prudent and intelligent person, have reasonable ground to expect at the moment of his act or default that an injury to some person might probably result therefrom.
Adopting this definition, the proximate cause of creation is the unmoved mover who triggered all movements that brought about the world. That unmoved mover is God. His purpose is to prepare us to be with him in paradise. There was a major shift in that plan when the Great Fall happened. But he introduced a major intervention by sending his own Son to save us. Mary’s visit to Elizabeth is part of the beginnings of this divine intervention. In that visit, the infant John the Baptist leapt for joy hearing the voice of Mary, the woman to deliver to the world the promised Savior. – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.
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