LET WHAT YOU HAVE SAID BE DONE

PRAYER PAUSE  

Saturday 10 February 2018

LET WHAT YOU HAVE SAID BE DONE

Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “I am the handmaid of the Lord,” said Mary, “let what you have said be done to me.” And the angel left her.  (Luke 1:26-38)

Reflection. Our Lady of Lourdes gets shelved this year since the 11^th falls on a Sunday, tomorrow. But allow me to ponder this day when she appeared to a poor French girl, Bernadette Soubirous, in 1858. She introduced herself as the “Immaculate Conception”, an astonishing title which riles those who do not go into its meaning. Jesus is the revelation of the Father, the divine. He is also the revelation of what it is to be fully human and is born of a woman who is so highly favoured that she can be called the fullest revelation of her Son’s complete humanity. From the first moment of her existence she was everything a human being can aspire to be. Don’t misunderstand me! She had none of the qualifications a successful woman – or man – might aspire to today but she had that inner essential quality of expressing totally the often hidden meaning of God’s creation from the beginning.

Prayer. Hail Mary, full of grace; the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women and men and blessed is the fruit of you womb. Pray for us sinners. Amen.