Mary

Hail Mary, full of grace”
Prayer “Hail Mary”

When examining the role of Mary in God’s world, it behooves us to concentrate on her total humanness. The whole paschal mystery is centered in God connecting to man here on earth in human terms. Mary was 100% human and served as the conduit for God to be able to explain Himself and deliver himself to us as humans. Mary is that magnificent manifestation of the statement that God works with and through humanity to bring himself and, therefore, salvation to the human race. God appearing from some miraculous cloud or other extraterrestrial event would have presented God in his supernatural state only. As He comes into this world through Mary, He reveals Himself as a God with humanity. If I lived back then and met Mary on the street she would have looked like all others, like one of my sisters or neighbors. Mary taught us what total acceptance was. She accepted God’s word through various sources. If we could all accept the will of God like she did, we would be well on our way to salvation. She didn’t argue, she didn’t put up conditions. She accepted all that God had in mind for her. I am not only speaking of the birth of Christ but the acceptance of watching Him as her son, grow, preach, be ridiculed, die on a cross and then rise from the dead. Can we as Christians see Jesus as His mother would?