May it be done to me according to your word

FRIDAY 20 DECEMBER (Lk 1,26-38)

The more a person is rich in grace, the more wisdom abounds in him. The more one is filled with wisdom, the more he is inclined to do the will of the Lord in its knowledge and truth. In many we say we do the will of God, but, not being full of grace, we lack in wisdom, we do not know the truth of God’s will and consequently we act according to our feeling, convinced that we obey our God and Lord. The Virgin Mary is full of grace, full of wisdom, she walks from truth to truth and from faith to faith and as soon as the Angel reveals to her what the Lord has decided to do in her, in her virginal womb, she immediately asks the Angel to show her the ways. The will of God must be done according to the rules established by Him. Today, much, very much will of man is made to pass for will of God. But the will of man will never be assumed by God as his will. The results are of no salvation, no redemption, no justification, no conversion, no sanctification and no building up of the body of Christ the Lord. Mary doesn’t have to do anything. God must do everything in her and for her. The Holy Spirit will be the one to make her the Mother of the Son of the Most High, of the Eternal Word, remaining she Virgin forever. That is why every day, it is necessary to grow, like the Mother of God, from grace to grace and from light to light. Thus we will always know how to put aside all our human wisdom and intelligence and also supernatural wisdom and intelligence, to let us be guided by the actual Word, which is the only one that reveals to us the modalities according to which the will of God must be realized. Replacing the Christian today, in almost everything, the will of God with his will, he attests that he is extremely poor in divine grace, devoid of the Holy Spirit, lacking in supernatural light and lacking in true modalities. For a disciple of Jesus the grace is all.

In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary. And coming to her, he said, “Hail, favoured one! The Lord is with you.” But she was greatly troubled at what was said and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God. 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.” But Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?” And the angel said to her in reply, “The holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. And behold, Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren; for nothing will be impossible for God.” Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.

The more one is in grace, the more our faith opens up to the mysteries of salvation. No creature in the world is full of grace like the Virgin of Nazareth. And no creature possesses even a faith similar to hers, that is faith of abandonment, surrender, offering of her life to God, in soul, spirit and body, so that his divine will is fulfilled. Today let us observe the life of the Christian. From the fruits that it matures, we must necessarily deduce that there is total absence of grace in it. Lacking in grace, wisdom is also absent. The questions we ask are many, the answers might never be those of God. What is the saddest fruit we are producing? While the Virgin Mary made the eternal Word become flesh in her womb, we are gradually removing Christ from the heart, from the mind, from the will and from the mystery of the Church herself. We are shattering, erasing, declaring not essential, not necessary and even vain the work that God has done in Mary. The Christian cannot walk in a history poor in grace and truth. Like Christ, in Christ, with Christ and for Christ he was constituted light, truth, grace and eternal life for every man. He dies to grace and the world remains in death.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure that the Christian grows in grace and truth.