Genesis 3:9-15, 20, Luke 1:26-38, Psalm 98:1-4

Daily Mass Readings : Genesis 3:9-15, 20, Luke 1:26-38, Psalm 98:1-4

Genesis 3:9-15, 20

Beloved the stage is set for the greatest tragedy and the greatest triumph.  The opening scene has God arriving and He asks 4 questions in the above verses they are:

WHERE ARE YOU? 

WHO TOLD YOU THAT YOU WERE NAKED? 

HAVE YOU EATEN OF THE TREE I ORDERED YOU NOT TO EAT? 

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?

I can almost hear the anguish and horror in the Father's voice as He asks the last question for He knows what it is going to cost Him to undo what our first parents had done.  The scene ends with the man calling his wife Eve, the mother of all the living while the truth of the matter is that she allowed herself to be tempted, she tempted her husband and thus sin and death entered the world.

Luke 1:26-38

My Beloved, here we have another stage with another woman - but one who is untouched as man - as pure as the lily is white and pure.  God does not have to go in search of her because she is present to Him always.  She has no cause for shame and therefore no cause to hide.  Mary asks only one question not in doubt but rather in wonder as to how God would accomplish this wonderful thing in her since she was a virgin.  The angel's answer suffices to change wonder to awe.  She knows God can do anything, and she consents.  The Holy Spirit then descends on her and the power of God Almighty overshadows her and You my Beloved, the Word of God became Flesh - God Incarnate of the Virgin Mary.  She becomes the second Eve and it is more rightly called the mother of all the living.  The Church was conceived at the foot of the Cross when You entrusted her to the beloved disciple as his mother.  

Psalm 98:3

3 He has not forgotten his love nor his faithfulness to Israel. 

The farthest ends of the earth all have seen God’s saving power.