08/04/2024

March 25 is the date the Church remembers the moment when God's purpose was announced to Mary. She was probably a teenager and certainly a physically fully mature woman at that moment. It was then that she conceived the human Son of God and since then he has always been with us and will so remain until the end of time.

The time in which we live is a product of the Universe created by our God. Part of the humility which is the emptying of himself by the Word is the acceptance to live in human time and so at that moment, when Mary conceived, the Word became Man. Thus began in time the story of salvation which is always known to God.

More than two thousand years have passed since that moment. Do we humans show that the trust that Jesus placed in his disciples by teaching, accepting death and rising to New Life was justified?

Our Father has given us all the freedom to choose by our own decision how to live in this world during the time our bodies can survive. There is only one way, truth and life and that was revealed to us in Palestine by the Son of the Father, the Second Person of the Trinity and confirmed to the open hearts of the whole world, by the Holy Spirit.

In human time this year, 2024, the Feast of the Annunciation fell during Holy Week so we are celebrating on 8 April the timeless gift of God's Mercy to us, the sinners of this World. 

Dear Lord, may I continue to be aware of your loving mercy that saves us all from our own sins. May we all on Earth thank you for sharing in our humanity so that the perfect sacrifice could be made in the atonement needed to open the gates of heaven. You prepared Mary in your Eternal Being to become the Mother of your only begotten Son. May she lead all the saints in the prayer that can bring me and mine, all of us sinners, living and dead, into the Eternity where you are "All in All", Three persons, only one IAM IAM.