The Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus

 

God is love. From the beginning of time, He had a plan for humanity, a plan for our salvation. And in that love, God thought of Mary, the Virgin Mother, Mother of God and our Mother, and of course, of salvation through Jesus, our Lord. We cannot speak of Mary without thinking of Jesus. Already in Genesis, God gives us hope when He says to the serpent in Genesis 3:15, “        I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head.”   This new woman is the Virgin Mary, and her offspring is Jesus.   Thus, God promises us a new mother and a savior, a new Eve and a new Adam.   And just as through Eve's disobedience we find death, it is through Mary's obedience that God gives us the hope of eternal life through Jesus.  For without the Virgin Mary's "yes," the life of Jesus would not have been possible.   And it is this Jesus who brings life to humanity, new life through grace.   Therefore, the Virgin Mary occupies a very important place in God's plan of salvation.   I recently heard on an EWTN program that the Virgin Mary can be compared to the Ark of the Covenant, because just as the Ark of the Covenant represented God's presence among the people of Israel, the Virgin Mary is the ark, the virginal womb that carried within her God the Son, Emmanuel, God with us.   Isaiah 7:14 tells us, “ Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign:   The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Emmanuel.”  This young woman could be none other than the Virgin Mary,  the Most Holy and Chaste Virgin before, during, and after childbirth.   This is a dogma of faith, but this ark that carried within her God the Son, this Mother of God, could not be stained by sin; therefore, she is a Virgin and was conceived without original sin.   I don't remember the saint's name because I heard it several years ago, but this is what he said about the Virgin Mary's virginity: "God willed it, He could, and He did it."   The God of creation willed to create the Virgin Mary to be the Mother of Jesus, and He chose her  from the beginning.   The mystery of the Incarnation of Jesus is undoubtedly the greatest miracle of all time.   Through Mary, the prophecies are fulfilled, and God Himself is present in our lives through Jesus, God the Son, who shows us His humility and His love and dwells among us.