Tuesday, December 20, 2011
The Blog Has Moved!
Hello everyone. I has been working on a new web site for the past month and have finally set up a new WordPress blog at http://blog.thiscatholiclife.org. All the posts from here have moved to that blog so I won't be completely deleting this content. If you wish, please check out my main site, http://www.thiscatholiclife.org. I hope to have a podcast in the works come January!
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Be It Done Unto Me...
Mary is the fairest person of the human race; the beautiful vessel and dwelling place of Christ Jesus. Her "fiat" changed the face of the earth. She didn't worry or fret over what the angel Gabriel said to her when he appeared to her. I imagine her intently listening to his words and calmly asking her one question: how can I can conceive a child without knowing a man? And when she heard Gabriel's answer, that the Holy Spirit would come upon her and overshadow her, even though she could not comprehend it, she said, "I am the handmaid of the Lord. Be it done to me according to thy word." She had no idea what was going to happen; trusting that she would be with child put her at risk of death. She did not sit around and think, "Woe is me!" but she immediately traveled to see Elizabeth, knowing that she was with child and cared for her until John's birth. What love and what grace!
Our Blessed Mother is the Immaculate Conception, as she proclaimed to St. Bernadette at Lourdes, France. The grace and salvific power of Christ was bestowed upon her the moment she was conceived in her mother's womb. She who knew no sin bore the Sinless One, the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity. How could the New Ark of the Covenant even be stained by sin if she became the Mother of God? That is why God prepared an immaculate place for His Son to enter into the world and thus save us from the fault of our first parents and open the gates to Eternal Paradise with the Three in One.
How could we not honor the Mother of God, the Blessed Virgin Mary? When we honor her, we also honor Christ. She orients us toward her Son. So, let us pray:
"Father, you prepared the Virgin Mary to be the worthy mother of your Son. You let her share beforehand in the salvation Christ would bring by his death, and kept her sinless from the first moment of her conception. Help us by her prayers to live in your presence without sin. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."
(Taken from the Christian Prayer book, the evening prayer for the feast of the Immaculate Conception)
Laus Deo!
Our Blessed Mother is the Immaculate Conception, as she proclaimed to St. Bernadette at Lourdes, France. The grace and salvific power of Christ was bestowed upon her the moment she was conceived in her mother's womb. She who knew no sin bore the Sinless One, the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity. How could the New Ark of the Covenant even be stained by sin if she became the Mother of God? That is why God prepared an immaculate place for His Son to enter into the world and thus save us from the fault of our first parents and open the gates to Eternal Paradise with the Three in One.
How could we not honor the Mother of God, the Blessed Virgin Mary? When we honor her, we also honor Christ. She orients us toward her Son. So, let us pray:
"Father, you prepared the Virgin Mary to be the worthy mother of your Son. You let her share beforehand in the salvation Christ would bring by his death, and kept her sinless from the first moment of her conception. Help us by her prayers to live in your presence without sin. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."
(Taken from the Christian Prayer book, the evening prayer for the feast of the Immaculate Conception)
Laus Deo!
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