25/03/2023

Exactly 9 months before Christmas the Church celebrates the Annunciation of the conception of Jesus who from this day is in the world experiencing the same bodily development that has been undergone by all of us but not remembered as our embryonic brains were not fuly grown during those first months of life. This experience is also known by all mammals. Jesus is truly a human being with the important exception, sinlessness; his developing body is part of Mary's who has also not known sin. 

This mystery of the Incarnation is a humility on the part of God, whom we are shown to be Father Son and Holy Spirit, that is totally out of love for his creation and particularly for his own image and likeness which we all are. I cannot fully grasp the significance of what I write for I am but a sinful man, less than dust of God's Universe.

Scripture records some of God's dealings with humanity. All of these dealings are guidance and then forgiveness. Guidance to show us the way to live and then forgiveness for our failings. Gabriel greets Mary and also reveals that Elizabeth is also pregnant and the two together enable us to say:

Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

Dear Lord let my words not be a presumption but a sincere belief that will rule my being and behaviour. Guide my prayers and thought let me have a modicum of your infinite humility saying : Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen