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Br. Lain Wilson

The Blessed Virgin Mary, God-bearer

Luke 1:39-56
1 Corinthians 1:26-31

In his classic introduction to the Hebrew prophets, Abraham Heschel notes a characteristic of the prophet Isaiah: “Pathos is spoken of in Isaiah more frequently in an instrumental than in a personal sense. . . . the world’s great powers are instruments of the divine will.”[1]

The greatest expression for us Christians of the divine pathos is what John’s gospel reveals: “For God so loved the world that [God] gave [the] only Son” (John 3:16). For this supreme expression of love, God chose not one of the world’s great powers to be God’s instrument, but instead a poor young woman named Mary.

Celebrating Mary today reveals something about what God is up to, and something about what we are called to. Read More