The Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord: Day 31 of the Lenten Fast: "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you" Scripture 1st Reading: Is7:10-14;8:10; Responsorial Psalm: Ps40:7-11; 2nd Reading: Heb10:4-10; Gospel Acclamation: Jn1:14; Gospel: Lk1:26-38 The height of God's engagement At the appointed time, decided by God in His inscrutable wisdom, after humanity had been under the throes of sin and death, and satan had held sway from the foundation of the world, God acted and brought relief and remedy to beleaguered and traumatized humanity. This was the highest expression of the love of God; it was God assuring us that He had not forgotten humanity and that He was prepared to apply the greatest remedy for our collective shame and fall from grace to grass, from holiness to sin. At the appointed time, God sent the Angel Gabriel to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man, whose name was Joseph, and t...
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