12.08.13

Lectio:  Lk 1.26-38                                                                 

Meditatio: “But Mary said to the angel, ‘How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?’ Therefore, the child to be born will be called the holy, the Son of God.” Lk 1.34

Oratio: O God, You ways are so marvelous and so often beyond our ways!

I remember the Angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she would be bear a child, not through a man, but through the power of the Holy Spirit, for  the child would  be the Son of God as well as the son of Mary.                    

Grant that I may be always open to the marvelous ways You interact with us and with the universe and always give thanks and praise and always stand in awe at You - for You are so great and so powerful and yet so caring of us.

I ask this and all things in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You
and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

Contemplatio: spend some time in silence and meditate on the selected passage and hear what
God is saying to you.

Operatio: reflect: "How?...no relations”; a natural question; a supernatural response for it would be the Holy Spirit who would fertilize Mary’s egg in her ovary and bring about the conception of Jesus in her womb; in prayer on this day on which we celebrate the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception as it was moved from the 8th, a Sunday, to the 9th; because it is a feast that is never suppressed, for it is a happening that changed everything for all humanity. In prayer thank God for intervening in our history in such a wonderful fashion and may we always follow what His Son taught, the Great Law of Love; and thus show the only gratitude that God wants of us.

Tomorrow's reading: Mt 18.12-14