April 21, 2011
Begin with the Prayer of Abandonment. A few weeks ago, on March 25, we celebrated the Feast of the Annunciation, when the Blessed Virgin Mary gave her assent to God’s plan, by which she was to become the Theotokos . . . the God Bearer. Her “yes” set a series of events in motion that would change the whole human story, making us not just friends but children of God. Today we celebrate a “yes” of a very different kind: The moment when the Son of God gave his yes — freely and without equivocation — to God’s redemptive plan. It was the […]