DAILY HOLY MASS READING
I am the handmaid of the Lord:
let what you have said be done to me.
MICAH 5:1-4 ©
My Soul's Beloved,
God's ways are inscrutable. Who can fathom the will of God? Who but God can confound us with His unknowable ways? Who could imagine that anyone least of all God would will His only, most beloved Son, who is God as well, to come into the world as a weak, helpless, human baby, and even more to be born in poverty, born in a stable far away from home. Live a hidden life for 30 long years, and when You make Yourself known to be rejected by Your own people. Hated simply because they could not comprehend the mind and will of God and hence refused to accept You and believe that God's way is indeed not man's ways. So completely were You disregarded that ultimately, to rid themselves of You and the fear You posed of toppling the status quo, they actually staged a phony trial and got You, the Son of God, convicted and executed but not before mocking You and putting You through the most ignominious suffering and torture before You finally gave up Your Spirit to Your Father.
They were not to know that all that they did served God's purpose. The Son of God made perfect and complete atonement for our sins and thus redeemed the world.
Not only did You save us, Beloved, but You are also food and drink for our souls. You Feed us and Your Body and Blood we are healed and made perfect as we prepare for eternal life.
He will stand and feed his flock
with the power of the Lord,
with the majesty of the name of his God.
They will live secure, for from then on he will extend his power
to the ends of the land.
He himself will be peace.
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