The texts today from the Roman Catholic Lectionaryfor Canada offer contemplation on the Immaculate Heart of Mary through passages
from Isaiah, Samuel and Luke. The action of God to grow the faithfulness and
rich relationship of people with Him is proclaimed by Isaiah. The text from
Samuel celebrates the turnaround and flipping of fortune for the faithful Hannah
as she becomes a mother through the grace of God. The Church points to the
great faith of Mary as she moves to obey God with the “yes” based on deep faith
that opens the door for the Son to be Incarnate as her child and for our
faithful continuation of the mission of Jesus as we incarnate His Spirit
through the Church. Friar Jude Winkler notes that Luke uses a technique called “foreshadowing”
as he presents the Gospel. The disappearance of Jesus as the boy transitioning
to Jewish Man and accepting His mission as Son to be in His Father’s House for
three days is the foreshadowing of His disappearance for three days in the
tomb. The heart of Mary is contemplated as the site of the resolution of the
anxiety and turmoil of life as the human mother of Jesus with the faith walk in
which she witnesses to acceptance of the incomprehensible through complete
Trust in God. The witness of Mary is the key to open our relationship with God
to the possibilities of intimacy and inversion of fortune proclaimed by Isaiah
and Hannah.
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