Despite her fear and despite the darkness, Mary says, I am the maidservant of the Lord; let it be done to me as you say. At the crucial moment, Mary of Nazareth allows herself to fall in love with God, and in that moment of ecstasy, the Son of God enters the world for its salvation.
The human tragedy began with Adam and Eve’s grasp; the divine comedy commences with Mary’s letting-go. This is why the medieval commentators, with their delicious sense of the co-penetration of all parts of the Bible, observed that the Ave of the angel of the Annunciation reverses Eva, the mother of all the living.
Mary said, Be it done to me as you say. Why is surrender such a critical part of falling in love with God?
--Bishop Robert Barron,
Gospel Reflection,
December 20, 2019
Image source: Hail, Mary, Full of Grace, Kerala, India, https://globalworship.tumblr.com/post/105233311695/the-annunciation-india-song-paintings
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