The Lord God will give him the throne of David his father

Is 7,10-14; Ps 23,1-6; Lk 1,26-38.
20 DECEMBER

The Virgin Mary is full of the Holy Spirit, because she is full of grace. She is a living temple of the Blessed Trinity. The Father dwells in her with his love, the Holy Spirit with his communion, the Eternal Word as her true life. The Word in which the life of every living being is awaits the yes of Mary in order to become human life in her and for her, drawing life from her life, with true generation, but not according to the ways of men, but following the established ways from the Father. He will become flesh through the work of the Holy Spirit. Let us ask ourselves for a moment: why cannot the Word of life become flesh in the ways of men? Because He cannot have two fathers, but only one. The Father who generated him in eternity must eternally be the only Father of his divine Person, the flesh cannot have a father, because the flesh is not a person. Instead, it can have a Mother because the Divine person born in the flesh is from her virginal womb. It is the eternal law of the creation of God and of God himself: one Father, one mother. Not two fathers. Not two mothers. Today human aberration is precisely this: wanting to give the human person two fathers or two mothers, depriving him of his natural father and mother. Every disorder introduced into God’s eternal law is the creator of hell on our earth. Today, if the earth is turning into a hell it is a sign that we have become creators of disorder, confusion and alteration of the order created by God. Then we give this disorder the name of law, mercy, love and justice. If anyone denounces this disorder he is called a person without charity, without love and with a heart of stone. He is condemned for homophobia. Today, the law of hell is the one that governs. Instead an order and a communion of Paradise are lived in the Virgin Mary. But she is the Paradise of God on our earth, among us. God is in Her, with Her and for Her.

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.

There is no higher, more divine and eternal mystery like the one that today is announced to the Virgin Mary. Why is her yes to become the Mother of the Eternal Word of the Father immediate, total and full? Because full and involving her whole being in soul, body and spirit is the presence of the Holy Spirit in Her. It is as if the body, the soul and the spirit of Mary were body, spirit and soul of the Holy Spirit. Since the Holy Spirit is the eternal communion of truth and love between the Father and the Son, it is also the communion of Mary with the Father and the Son. Can the Holy Spirit say no to the Father who asks him for anything? No. Never. Can the Word of God say no to the Father who asks him for anything? No. Never. He lives in perfect communion in the Holy Spirit. Can the Virgin Mary say no to the Father who asks her to become the Mother of his son? No. Never. She lives in the communion of the Holy Spirit. Through her voice it is the Spirit who answers the Father. Yes cannot be but full, in the gift of her whole self to the Father, remaining eternally virgin for him. Thus the Virgin Mary reveals to us what our sin is today. The abandonment of the communion of the Holy Spirit because of our non-growth in wisdom and grace. Without the Spirit one is also without the Word.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, help us to live in perfect communion with the Spirit.