Friday , August 22, 2014.
20th Week in Ordinary Time QUEENSHIP
OF MARY
1st Reading: Is 9:1-6
Gospel: Luke 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)
A man unearthed a centuries-old bottle. When he uncorked it a grateful genie came out promising to grant him anything with the only condition that his wife would get double of anything he’d be asking for. He was taken aback. His wife had recently abandoned him and his family for another man. The love he bore for her had turned to hatred and even the mention of her name raised his blood pressure to unmanageable levels. He ended up asking the genie to make one of his eyes blind. “What a strange request”, the genie inquired. The man explained: “With the condition you are imposing, my wife should go totally blind after you have granted my request”.
The man suffered a worse kind of blindness in asking for that kind of favor. He didn’t see that by seeking the destruction of his wife he was the necessary casualty. More often than not our prayers are no different. Many prayers go unheard because people only think of themselves each time they ask the Lord for something. Unheard prayer is not a case of generosity problem on the part of God but a case of generosity problem on our part. Let us learn from the Blessed Virgin Mary whose generosity to submit herself totally to the Word unlocked the doors to salvation. – Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email:dan.delosangeles@gmail.com. Website:www.frdan.org.
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