Today we celebrate the Annunciation of the incarnation of the Son of God as a human being by the Angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary. There is much going on in the community these days, as we strive for sustainability and our day is unavoidably affected by “business as usual”–even if it isn’t a work day! But do your best to keep the celebration of this great mystery of our religion a day of prayer and thanksgiving to God for doing the “unthinkable”. God has joined our created nature to his own transcendent divine life, that the world might be saved through him and that we might see, in the face of the Son, the face of the Father. “He who sees me, Philip, sees the Father also. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?” (John 14)
The word of acceptance by Mary of Nazareth is where it all begins, the moment that changed the world; and all creation was forever infused with uncreated life, all that is mortal, with everlasting divinity. Indeed, all creation groans awaiting the revelation of the children of God. And we who have the Spirit as first fruits, we groan inwardly as we await the redemption of our bodies. By hope we are saved: spe salvi facti sumus. The solemnity of the Annunciation is the supreme celebration of hope, when God awaited the consent of one mortal woman and everything became possible which had previously been impossible. “Behold, I make all things new.” Everything is now possible,
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