Gospel:
Luke 1:26-38
In the
sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called
Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the House of David;
and the virgin's name was Mary. He went in and said to her, 'Rejoice, you who
enjoy God's favor! The Lord is with you.' She was deeply disturbed by these
words and asked herself what this greeting could mean, but the angel said to
her, 'Mary, do not be afraid; you have won God's favor. Look! You are to
conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus. He will be
great and will be called Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the
throne of his ancestor David; he will rule over the House of Jacob for ever and
his reign will have no end.'
Mary said
to the angel, 'But how can this come about, since I have no knowledge of man?'
The angel answered, 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the
Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and
will be called Son of God. And I tell you this too: your cousin Elizabeth also,
in her old age, has conceived a son, and she whom people called barren is now
in her sixth month, for nothing is impossible to God.'
Mary
said, 'You see before you the Lord's servant, let it happen to me as you have
said.' And the angel left her.
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Reflection:
Do you
always submit to the wisdom of the Good Lord?
Sometimes
there are situation/s in life that will disturb our peace, for example a sudden
diagnoses of sickness. This kind of life event will surely bother us. But in
the midst of this life disturbances let us not forget that the good Lord is
always there for us. To comfort us, to give us hope and to assure us that He
will always be there for us.
When the
angel Gabriel appeared and greeted the Blessed Mother she was naturally
concerned about it, who would not be? Perhaps the Blessed Mother told herself,
Why did this angel appeared to me? What would this angel bring me; a trial that
is hard for me to bear?
But the
angel told the Blessed Mother that she would bear a son and His name is Jesus.
The angel further said that she has nothing to worry because the Lord will take
care of her. Thus, the Blessed Mother humbly accepted her fate and entrusted
herself to the wisdom of God.
Whatever
we are going through right now or we might go through in the future. Be it
sickness or severe trial that may test our fidelity to Jesus, let us hold on to
our deep faith in Jesus. For as long as we have faith there would be hope and
deliverance from all of life’s challenges.
As the
Blessed Mother entrusted her fate to the good Lord we too must learn to submit
to God’s will for ourselves. Let us never worry for Jesus is always there for
us and never will He abandon us. -
Marino J. Dasmarinas
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