Catholic in Belfast

Children of God, beloved sons and daughters of the Father, this week we will share an essential theme for the true understanding of God’s will for humanity: salvation. And what we reflected on last week about free will helps us understand the “madness” of the Father when He placed all His authority, power, glory, and majesty at the feet of a woman’s freedom, sending an archangel with an announcement that would forever change everything that was known about who God was.  Of course, we are speaking of the woman of Nazareth, the young maiden who surrendered her freedom, gave it entirely into the hands of the Lord and learned—in silence, in prayer, in trust, and in courage—to obey what God wanted for her life: happiness, complete fulfilment as a human woman and servant of God. The most perfect woman ever to set foot on this earth, in God’s eyes (otherwise He would not have chosen her).  Who is Mary of Nazareth? What did she do that was so important that she is remembered to this ...