Morning Prayer - FRIDAY, 25 March 2022

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - March 25, 2022 | Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord

The feast of the Annunciation, now recognized as a solemnity, was first celebrated in the fourth or fifth century. Its central focus is the Incarnation: God has become one of us. From all eternity God had decided that the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity should become human.

Mary has an important role to play in God’s plan. From all eternity, God destined her to be the mother of Jesus and closely related to him in the creation and redemption of the world. We could say that God’s decrees of creation and redemption are joined in the decree of Incarnation. Because Mary is God’s instrument in the Incarnation, she has a role to play with Jesus in creation and redemption. It is a God-given role. It is God’s grace from beginning to end. Mary becomes the eminent figure she is only by God’s grace. She is the empty space where God could act. Everything she is she owes to the Trinity. (Franciscan Media)

Let us especially ask Mary to intercede for us to God especially for war to end and peace to spread throughout the world. In her womb, Jesus, the Prince of Peace, took flesh. May she lead us now on the paths of peace.

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