Rejoice, FULL OF GRACE,
THE LORD IS WITH YOU
The solemnity today outlined the figure of the Virgin Mary as a hub between the God who protects us from evil, elect, holy, and the human creature who, while endowed with freedom, is called to respond to the divine will without reserve. I read reports the stern warning from God to Satan, "I will put enmity between thee and the woman will crush your head ..." (Gen 3:15). In this sense Mary, "the work is not poisoned by the serpent," is "the new flower of the earth that grows from Heaven." Eva on the contrary, lasciatasi seduced by the tempting serpent, has pushed the freedom to evil and death.
In the Gospel, on the one hand, the Virgin is invited to rejoice because "full of grace" (Lk 1:28) and chosen above the women on the other it says serve obedient to the Lord (Luke 1:38). What about us? We are in the balance between obedience to God and surrendering to Satan, between being cultivated by heaven or earth. The Devil, always lurking for the children of God, inclines us to evil. But St. Paul also announced that for us there is a divine plan (Reading II): Grace, who removed the Virgin every trace of evil, free us from the burden of sin and opens us to the nostalgia of the good.
Sergio Gaspari, smm
Courtesy of LA Saint Paul Sunday Magazine
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