The CHURCH seen as HOLY MARY

1) Today as we celebrate Mary the Mother of Jesus, I play the Angel Gabriel
and I greet you as a Christian Community (as I do it every Sunday three times):
            "REJOICE ! THE LORD BE WITH YOU !
And you - like MARY - you as a Community, you start to think about this greeting.
What could this greeting mean to me, to our Community ? Such a meditation you
may exercise every day. Every morning you may ask yourself: What is meant by this
mysterious message: The Lord-God is with you / me (not so much as an individual person but much more with us as a Community)
After such personal and communal research
2) The Angel Gabriel will help you to find a meaning, a special one:
            "YOU HAVE WON GOD's FAVOUR"
This is the finding, MARY has discovered and get the conviction: Yes, God's favour is
with me, with us as a Community. That's not a message to be afraid, the contrary:
God's favour is GRACE, JOY, LIFE...  Until now you may become curious: HOW looks
God's favour for me, for us as a Community ?
3) The Angel Gabriel explains:  "YOU ARE TO CONCEIVE JESUS"
And MARY and hopefully WE have the courage to ask: HOW ? HOW I myself and the
Community will conceive Jesus ? The one who has died 2000 years ago. HOW can this happen ? We have to think about very hard!
4) The Angel Gabriel again explains:
                          THE SPIRIT of GOD WILL OVERSHADOW YOU.
Every Sunday we receive Jesus as the Word of God, as the Bread of Life. We open
our ears and hands (brain and heart) to conceive Jesus Christ.
5) MARY, convinced "nothing is impossibel to God" is able to answer:
                          FIAT: LED WHAT YOU HAVE SAID DONE TO ME.
That's the point: we have to answer! We have to decide! No way without a personal decision. Do you like to bring Jesus into the world ? really ?

Wherever you go - like you visit Elizabeth - they will discover: you are pregnant:
you bring Jesus into the world (or even not!) - and they will confirm: Yes - so doing -
you are really blessed .
And you - confirmed by others - you will start - following your experiences - to sing
the praise-song: "MAGNIFICAT ANIMA MEA DOMINUM" (my Spirit exults in God).