When we reflect upon the Annunciation, we are able to contemplate the mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God. When we celebrate the Annunciation, we are proclaiming the wonderful news that God chose to become one of us. Mary is told by the angel Gabriel that she would give birth to a Child who shall be called Son of the Most High.

And yet, this Son of God is also truly human, the son of the maiden Mary. He is man like us in all things except sin. He is a man who shares our joys and our sorrows, our pains and joys. And because this man is also God, we now have a God who can relate to us completely because he has humbled himself to share in our humanity. In the Annunciation, we rejoice with Mary in the knowledge that our God has come to be one of us and with us.

The Incarnation and the death and Resurrection of the Son of God are the central mysteries of Christianity. In our celebration of these mysteries in the liturgy we rejoice that God became a man, died on the cross and rose from the dead to save us from our sins and to open heaven for us.

We thank God for becoming a man like us and remaining God and man for us at the right hand of the Father.

We thank his mother Mary for giving her generous fiat to God’s invitation to be God’s mother.