"Revisting Wednesday" - A Simple Reflection on Mary's Fiat
Time again to thank Allison Gingras at Reconciled To You and Elizabeth Riordan at Theology Is A Verb for hosting "Revisiting Wednesday" each week and those Catholic bloggers who re-post their favorite articles there. Go there now. (and every Wednesday). You will be inspired by the variety of spiritual insights these authors share. I thought I would share the following: A Simple Reflection on Mary's Fiat (Originally posted December 8, 2014) Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) [I am recycling this simple reflection which got lost amid an earlier and lengthier post.] In Luke's Gospel (1:26-38) we hear the angel Gabriel’s familiar greeting to our heavenly Mother Mary: “Hail full of grace”. We repeat that salutation every time we pray the “Hail Mary”. As a result, we sometimes forget the significance of those words and the rest of this Scripture passage. When told by the angel that she, a virgin, would conceive the G...