THE WORD AND THE FEAST

12th December, 2014: Feast of Our Blessed Mother of Guadalupe

Zech 2: 14-17; Lk 1: 26-38

The Lord comes: with our Yes!

The feast of Our Blessed Mother of Guadalupe during the Advent is an opportune moment to reflect on the importance of our cooperation with God's will. The Lord speaks of the plan to be one of us, be with us and make us God's own. And the Gospel presents to us the shortcut to become God's own, with a role model in place: Our Blessed Mother. 

It is because of her total surrender that she enters so powerfully into the plan of God as an instrument so crucial in the hands of God. We have a call to make the presence of the Lord felt in the world today and in our context. The Reign of God is nothing but making the influence of God felt on every bit of what is happening around us. It is only with our Yes, that this can become a reality. The Lord throws the challenge open to us and awaits our Yes: with our Yes, the Lord comes into our history, as with Mary's Yes, the Lord entered the history of humanity so concretely.

Do you really want God to enter you life? Do you want your life to journey towards its fullness? Then ask yourself: Are you ready to say YES to the Lord and the Lord's plans? If you do, you too will sing with our Blessed Mother- 'My soul magnifies the Lord'!