Most blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
And how does this happen to me,
that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
Mary continues to come to us with blessings. Those blessings are always the same as the infant in her womb in whose presence John rejoiced in the womb of Elizabeth. Mary is the true ark of the covenant who brings the presence of Jesus to us. She is able to bless us and the world in this way because of her faith.
Blessed are you who believed
that what was spoken to you by the Lord
would be fulfilled.
She believed the angel when he told her what would happen.
Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son,
and you shall name him Jesus.
He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High,
and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father,
and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever,
and of his Kingdom there will be no end.
She did not understand everything. She asked the angel for clarification. Yet that clarification couldn't remove all mystery from what would follow. Even having heard that the Holy Spirit would be involved and that miracles were indeed possible for God she did not have a full basis to accept what would happen by her rational understanding. It was ultimately her humility, faith, and obedience that agreed to the part God chose for her in salvation history.
Mary wants us to learn from her the way to respond to God in faith. She wants this because she delights to bring the presence of her son anywhere he is welcome. Since the way that Jesus comes to be born in our hearts is through our response of faith Mary wants to nourish this response in us by her example and by her irrefusable prayers at the throne of Christ.
A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun,
with the moon under her feet,
and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
She appears, as she did in Guadalupe, not for her own glory, but that the world might know her son. She longs for Jesus to reign in the hearts of brothers and sisters throughout the world. We witness in Juan Diego the lengths to which she will go to accomplish this. Mary works through humble people like Juan Diego to make Christ known. If we are humble and open she will work through us as well.
Many nations shall join themselves to the LORD on that day,
and they shall be his people,
and he will dwell among you,
and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
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