FRIDAY 20 DECEMBER
Luke 1, 26-38:
Mary answered, “Here is the handmaid of the Lord, let it be done to me according to your word”.
On this day of Advent we repeat the same grateful prayer that we did on recently for the Immaculate Conception:
Good Father, everything invites us to gratitude for what you have done in Mary and want to do in us, moved by your infinite love.
We thank you because we can turn to Mary as our mother and as a model of faith.
As a person capable of accepting your word and always ready to live it with all her Heart.
Thank you because Mary brought Jesus into the world and made him known to us, invited us to obey him and she was the first disciple.
May we, like her, know how to be attentive to welcoming your projects at all times.
Let us not be afraid to adhere to them from the heart, nor let us say that today it is impossible to follow the Gospel of Jesus as Mary did.
Above all, help us not to see as normal nor to ever make a pact with evil and sin that we find in the world and within us.
Let us not compromise with selfishness and violence.
Let us not remain indifferent when human rights are violated and people are enslaved.
Let us not remain indifferent when we are invited to live without faith.
Free us from saying “this has always happened” and that “it is impossible to improve the world”.
May we have the courage to believe and to put our faith into practice.
May we, like Mary Immaculate, prepare the way to receive more fully the grace that Jesus brings us.
Good day.
Antonio María Sanjuán Marín, cmf
