ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD, ----- SOLEMNITY.
READINGS:
1R: Is 7: 10 - 14, 8 : 10.
PS 39 : 7 - 8a, 8b - 9, 10, 11.
2R: Hebr 10: 4 10.
GOS Lk 1: 26 - 38 .
TODAY IS THE SOLEMN FEAST OF ANNUNCIATION.
TODAY IS THE DEFINITIVE BEGINNING OF GOD'S SALVATION, THROUGH HIS ONLY SON JESUS CHRIST .
GOD'S PLAN OF SALVATION IS ACCEPTED BY MARY UNRESERVEDLY AND IN DEEP FAITH AND OBEDIENCE.
IN THE FIRST READING WE HAVE ISIAH'S PROPHESY FORETELLING THE BIRTH OF THE MESSIAH, THE EMMANUEL-- GOD WITH US- THROUGH A VIRGIN.
THE SECOND LETTER NARRATES HOW GOD BRINGS ABOUT A NEW FORM OF WORSHIP THROUGH JESUS.
HE SIMPLY SAYS, " I HAVE COME TO DO THY WILL LORD "
REMEMBER MARY ALSO EXPRESSED SIMILAR DISPOSITIONS WHEN SHE SAID, " BEHOLD THE HAND MAID OF THE LORD "
THEREFORE THE NEW FORM OF WORSHIP IS THE COMPLETE SURRENDER TO GOD'S WILL.
BY BEING DISOBEDIENT HUMANS LOST PARADISE AND ' INHERITED ' DEATH.
NOW JESUS, BEING OBEDIENT TO THE FATHER, REGAINS HEAVEN FOR ALL HUMANS WHICH EACH NEED TO APPROPRIATE BY THE SAME PATH OF OBEDIENCE.
ARE WE READY LIKE JESUS, MARY AND MULTITUDE OF SAINTS TO TROD THE PATH OF OBEDIENCE ???
