Remembering his mercy

1 Sam 1,24-28; Ps 1 Sam 2,1.4-8; Lk 1,46-55
22 DECEMBER

Let us ask ourselves: why does the Virgin Mary speak with such great wisdom of God, while today we are reducing to falsehood even the basic and fundamental truths of our most holy faith? What prevents us from speaking according to fullness and purity of truth of our God and Lord? The answer is offered by the Apostle Paul in his First Letter to the Corinthians. The virgin Mary grows from grace to grace and from the Holy Spirit to the Holy Spirit. Instead we die to grace and to the Holy Spirit.

When I came to you, brothers, proclaiming the mystery of God, 1 I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling, and my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive (words of) wisdom, but with a demonstration of spirit and power, so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God. Yet we do speak a wisdom to those who are mature, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who are passing away. Rather, we speak God’s wisdom, mysterious, hidden, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory, and which none of the rulers of this age knew; for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written: “What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him,” this God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God. Among human beings, who knows what pertains to a person except the spirit of the person that is within? Similarly, no one knows what pertains to God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the things freely given us by God. And we speak about them not with words taught by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, describing spiritual realities in spiritual terms. Now the natural person does not accept what pertains to the Spirit of God, for to him it is foolishness, and he cannot understand it, because it is judged spiritually. The spiritual person, however, can judge everything but is not subject to judgment by anyone. For “who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to counsel him?” But we have the mind of Christ (1Co 2,1-16).

The crisis of our times is a real moral crisis, a crisis of obedience not only to the Word, but also to grace, to the sacraments, to the charisma, to the Holy Spirit, to the mission and to the vocation. It is a crisis of non-habitation of the Christian in the grace and truth of Lord Jesus. By withdrawing from the Holy Spirit, that makes us spiritual beings, we immediately return to the flesh. Whoever is from the flesh might never speak from the Holy Spirit. What he says and works, he works it from the flesh and not from his communion with the Spirit of the Lord. On the other hand, the Virgin Mary is a woman entirely handed over to the Spirit. The Spirit becomes her voice and for her he sings the whole mystery of the Father, from which also the mystery of the Mother of God is. Her song is the hymn of the Spirit raised to the God of salvation and redemption.

And Mary said: “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my saviour. For he has looked upon his handmaid’s lowliness; behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed. The Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name. His mercy is from age to age to those who fear him. He has shown might with his arm, dispersed the arrogant of mind and heart. He has thrown down the rulers from their thrones but lifted up the lowly. The hungry he has filled with good things; the rich he has sent away empty. He has helped Israel his servant, remembering his mercy, according to his promise to our fathers, to Abraham and to his descendants forever.”

Today the many false songs about God, Christ Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the Church, the Sacraments, the Gospel, Tradition and the Magisterium, proclaimed as most pure theology and even worse declared man’s perfect mercy towards man, are the fruit of our detachment from the Holy Spirit. By now, there is in the air a “magnificat” towards evil, transgression, falsity, non-God, non-Christ, non-Holy Spirit and non-Church. The flesh sings its falsity, but proclaims it as the innocent and holy truth of the Lord.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, deny all our magnificats sung with falsehood.