God keeps on asking us

This 2013, Year of Faith, we celebrate the Annunciation today, 08 April 2013, because 25 March fell within Holy Week (and the solemnities of Our Lord's Paschal Mystery take precedence over His other solemnities), and this day is the first day after the Easter Octave.

Happy feastday to everyone! May our own "Yeses" of faith find inspiration and draw strength from the Yes of Mary of Nazareth. Who is she that the world as we know it should acclaim? But we of (weak but striving) faith know better: God lovingly chose her (as He does with every human life; and that alone matters), and she honored this choice of God with her personal, humble assent, a Yes she responsibly carried along even on those roads that led to Calvary.

There is this beautiful reflection I read from Universalis; I posted about this before, but it is so powerful an exhortation I choose to write about it again today:

"There is one more truth that the Annunciation teaches us, and it is so appalling that I can think of nothing uplifting to say about it that will take the sting away: perhaps it is best forgotten, because it tells us more about God than we are able to understand. The Almighty Father creates heaven and earth, the sun and all the stars; but when he really wants something done, he comes, the Omnipotent and Omniscient, to one of his poor, weak creatures — and he asks.

And, day by day, he keeps on asking us."

Read more here: http://universalis.com/20130408/today.htm

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