25/03/2025

The Annunciation

In moments of awareness of my sinfulness I have wondered, asked God, why it was that I have been born.

Today I can understand that in so doing I was challenging God. I was blaming Him for creating me to be sinful. This sinner can now only thank God for the opportunity to confess his sins and do penance for them.

There is no need to ask why the sinless Mary was born. She is essential to creation for the Incarnation is the Word who is with God in the beginning and is God. She is the sinlessly created source of the human body that is needed for IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to become "True Man", from fertilized egg to the tomb, and she is totally sinless; she is the spotless womb wherein Jesus was laid; she is Theotokos. 

She was also a teenager.

Her sinless human perfection could respond to the Angel by "How can this be?". The Incarnation is a human biological event that was accepted by Mary. God really become "True Man".

Of course, I am "gob-smacked". How else can anyone react to the wonder that is the historical fact of the conception and gestation of  "True God" as are not only all humans but also all mammals? It is to be a revealed mystery great enough to last a life-time of prayer that should need to know nothing more. 

I was also a teenager. 

I am a sinful man, a being who is self-aware but who wants to live a life as "God-aware" as was Mary and Jesus. I live in my time and although willing to say with Mary "Be it done unto me according to thy word" each passing moment is so filled by awareness of the World and of the sinfulness that I can add to it that I am always having  to make a personal act of will to turn my consciousness back to Our Father, his heavenly holiness, and my obligation to do His will on Earth.

Dear Lord, you know what I need to do to live according to thy will. Help me to share the grace that protected your mother all of her life and let the carapace of sin that has kept your grace from my heart be broken and reformed as the "St Patrick's breastplate" celebrated by the Church earlier this month. Our Lady is present with you in heaven and leads angels and saints in that eternal "now" of praise, thanks and petition that becomes the loving forgiveness so needed by sinners both on Earth and in Purgatory.