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Friends,
today we celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Conception. The Church
Fathers consistently referred to Mary as the new Eve, which is to say,
the one who reversed the momentum started by the mother of the human
race. The Ave of the angel was seen as the reversal of Eva. While Eve
grasped at divinity, Mary said “Let it be done unto me.”
Here’s
the liberating paradox: passivity before objective values is precisely
what makes life wonderful. Allowing oneself to be invaded and rearranged
by objective value is what makes life worth living. And this applies
unsurpassably to our relationship with God. The message that your life
is not about you does indeed crush the false self that would bend the
whole world to its purposes, but it sets free the true self.
The
Immaculate Conception itself is concealed in the privacy of salvation
history, but the effects of it are on clear display in this Gospel. In
the presence of the supreme value, we ought to say, along with Mary, “Be
it done unto me!”
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