Be Born in Me

March 25 marks 9 months until Christmas! I'm very excited!

I'm also very excited that the wisdom of the Church saw that we need to mark that day and we so we celebrate the Solemnity of the Annunciation. The following is a reflection I am sharing at Taize Prayer as we celebrate this great day.

The song from the video below inspired my thoughts.

Be born in me?

But why?

Why would Jesus choose to be born in Mary then and in me now?

Why in her life? Why in my life?

Why in the ordinary, regular life?

 

Because as Mother Maria Gysi, an Orthodox nun, once said:

‘God has pleased to love us carefully, to reveal His love not as beautifying, consuming fire, but as the tenderest self-limitation, God as servant; it was only so that He could grant us an individual life which, in a certain sense, we still could live ‘as we ourselves,’ and as an answer to him.’

 

 

 

God chose Mary,

in her individual, ordinary, regular life to bear Jesus:

The Son of God, Emmanuel, the Saviour.

God invites us to do the same each day,

to respond to this invitation to be God-bearers,

to carry the Son of God into the world around us.

 

Do our daily actions and words allow us to freely say ‘be born in me?’

and echo Mary’s ‘yes’?
Do we allow the light, hope, and love of God to impact our ordinary, regular life?

Each day we must say ‘be born in me dear Jesus’ so we can be more like you,

laying down our lives and ‘with one arm touch God and with the other embrace our neighbour.’[1]

Let us be God- bearers,

Be born in me, dear Jesus

Be born in us, dear Jesus.

 

 

 

Mary said ‘yes’ and became the Mother of God and the Mother of the Church.

We each hold such great potential, for we are children of God!

What will your 'yes' lead you to?

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[1] Paraphrase of a quote from Catherine Doherty