THE SOLEMNITY OF ANNUNCIATION - 4th April, 2016
Is 7: 10-14, 8:10; Heb 10: 4-10; Lk 1: 26-38
What is postponed is not cancelled, declares the Mother Church today. We missed the opportunity of celebrating this feast as it fell on the Good Friday this time. But the Church as a Mother, so concerned about the holistic upbringing of her children, proposes that we celebrate it today, so that we may not miss the great lessons that the day offers us - a list of three of them:
God has a plan: The sweetest fact that we can believe about ourselves is the plan that God has for us. How important I am, that the Almighty Creator of heaven and earth has a specific plan for me! I have a purpose and I am special - how blessed to know that!
Mary had a space for God: Mary had a space for God to enter into her life and encounter her. She did not shut the divine message off with her preoccupations and personal dreams. She let God into her life. I need to give God a space in my life!
The God-Human encounter: God proposes and Mary cooperates - that has to be the salvation story of every person on earth. In her 'yes' Mary told that Lord: Here I come to do your will...everything fell in place with that self-offering.
Learning to read the messages of the Lord and preparing to respond to them whole heartedly with a sense of absolute self-giving: The Salvation Plan unfolds - even today, and for everyone around!