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00:28Brothers, Luke has drawn a parallel between the announcement of John's birth and the announcement of Jesus' birth, to emphasize Jesus' superiority over John.
00:41The virginal conception of Jesus then fits perfectly.
00:46In the case of Jesus, the power of God overcomes not only the incapacity of John's parents, such as sterility and old age, but the complete absence of a human father.
01:00Mary, the servant of the Lord, evokes the figure of the servant of Yahweh.
01:07Like him, she wants to fully realize her calling as an unconditional docility to God's will.
01:16Let the Lord's will be done in her.
01:20Mary is not a passive person, who only listens, but rather a person whose obedient consent God awaits in order to work in her the wondrous mystery of the incarnation.
01:35The Virgin Mary's "Let it be done" ends the special scene.
01:41This fiat is not the pinnacle of the story, but that doesn't mean we should minimize the freedom and merit of their yes.
01:50Her greatness seems particularly apparent when Mary, aware of the mystery but without perceiving its full depth and scope, surrenders herself with generous and unreserved abandonment to its demands.
02:07whatever they may be, of the work that God wants to accomplish in her.
02:12Mary's fiat is the expression of a profound and sublime act of faith, which is a total and unreserved surrender to the divine will.
02:25The evangelist ends his story with great austerity.
02:30The purpose of the Annunciation story has been to declare that Jesus is the Messiah and the Son of God,
02:38and affirm the free collaboration of the Virgin Mary through her consent to a virginal conception.
02:48The Annunciation is not primarily concerned with Mary, but with Jesus.
02:54It is an eminently Christological text.
02:58No Gospel passage contains as many messianic titles as this one.
03:04However, brothers, Mary plays a role of primary importance in this scene.
03:11She is the instrument chosen by God to carry out the unheard-of mystery of the incarnation of his Son.
03:19And she collaborated in its realization with all her will, with all her freedom, with all her faith and, of course, with all her love.
03:30Furthermore, brothers, from the perspective of the second-generation Christian evangelist and theologian,
03:38He is interested in Mary not only as an individual person, but as a symbol of the holy believer of Israel as well as that of the church.
03:48Mary, the Virgin, is an admirable synthesis of the poor in spirit, the servant of Yahweh, the faithful and devoted woman,
04:00and of Jerusalem, the daughter of Zion, mother of the chosen people and fortunate custodian of the messianic promises.
04:09This third panel of the first triptych consists of an introduction, Mary goes to meet her relative,
04:21Elizabeth responds to Mary's greeting and blesses her, and Mary glorifies the Lord.
04:28And from one conclusion, Maria stayed at Isabel's house for about three months.
04:33Luke wanted to highlight Mary's promptness, docile to the promptings of the Holy Spirit who had filled her,
04:44knowing from the angel that Elizabeth was expecting a son.
04:49María, in a show of pride, goes to offer him her company and her services.
04:54Mary is presented by Luke as an example of promptness in the exercise of charity and generous dedication.
05:03The mountainous region from which Mary is traveling is the mountain of Judah.
05:10The village is generally identified with the present-day Ain Karim, six kilometers west of Jerusalem.
05:18As soon as Mary arrived at Zechariah's house, she greeted Elizabeth.
05:23This passage is a messianic scene.
05:27Lucas goes straight to the heart of the matter.
05:30Maria's greeting has two effects.
05:33The child leaped for joy in his mother's womb.
05:38This leap is the expression of messianic joy.
05:42The Greek verb used by the evangelist is reminiscent of Psalm 114.
05:48At this moment the child was filled with the Holy Spirit, thus fulfilling the announcement of the angel anointed by the Holy Spirit.
05:59The child is consecrated as a prophet for the mission that will be entrusted to him.
06:04Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
06:08The Holy Spirit also invades the mother and she can now pronounce a prophetic word.
06:16It will be the voice of the Spirit in her.
06:19The expression, "to cry out loudly," rather than indicating the tone of voice, aims to highlight the importance of the words.
06:28Isabel blesses the mother and her son.
06:33Elizabeth declares Mary blessed among women.
06:37The Greek formulation hides a Semitic superlative among all women.
06:44She is the most blessed by God.
06:47There is a reason for that.
06:48She has been chosen to be the mother of the Lord.
06:52And blessed is the fruit of his womb.
06:55Yes, the Messiah will be the singular object of divine favor.
07:01And Elizabeth's greeting evokes the blessings of Deuteronomy, chapter 28, verse 4.
07:08And from the Book of Judges, chapter 5, verse 24.
07:13And from Judith, chapter 13, verse 18.
07:17Elizabeth recognizes as her Lord the child conceived in Mary's womb.
07:22This act is in honor of the mother.
07:27Therefore, she is solemnly greeted as the mother of my Lord.
07:33The title Lord, with all the height of its theological significance,
07:39Jesus receives it in his glorification.
07:42But the evangelist is pleased to pay tribute to him even during his earthly life.
07:48The leap of joy of the child in Elizabeth's womb is like a greeting to his Lord,
07:54to his Messiah, present in the womb of Mary.
07:58If this scene is the meeting of two mothers, Mary and Elizabeth,
08:03It is above all the meeting of two sons, Jesus and John.
08:08Moreover, in the mind of the evangelist Elizabeth, John and Mary, Jesus,
08:15It is the meeting of the continuity of two economies, the Old and the New Alliance.
08:22The Old Covenant precedes it, that is why the first annunciation is that of John.
08:28But the New Covenant brings the first one to fulfillment.
08:31That is why the Messiah comes in his mother's womb to visit Elizabeth and her son
08:37so that through contact with Him they may be filled with the Holy Spirit.
08:42The Virgin Mary is proclaimed the believer and for that reason she is declared blessed.
08:50With this, Lucas wanted to highlight a contrast.
08:54Zechariah lacked faith, but Mary believed.
08:58Isabel also shines with great faith; she has been docile to the signs.
09:04and she is convinced that everything that has been said to her by God will be fulfilled in Mary.
09:11The praise of Mary that Luke puts on the lips of Elizabeth is very important.
09:18It underscores once again the faith she had in a virginal conception
09:23and it is already evidence of the veneration shown by the early church
09:29He was already beginning to pay tribute to the Mother of the Lord.
09:33She is declared blessed because she is the first to be rewarded with divine blessing,
09:41offered to those who receive the word of God with faith.
09:45Mary, brothers, is a model of obedient faith for the entire messianic community.
09:52Mary sings of the greatness of God.
09:56Brothers, the Magnifica is a poetic fragment inserted into the prose story.
10:03It is a litany of thanksgiving in the manner of Psalm 136,
10:09which is built on allusions to texts from the Old Testament.
10:14Indeed, brothers, God has set his eyes on his humble, lowly servant,
10:20which by itself has nothing,
10:23but in whom God was well pleased and did great things,
10:28He who is the Mighty One, who is called the Holy One,
10:33whose merciful love is passed from generation to generation
10:37about those who venerate and love him.
10:40Because of all that He has done in me, says Mary,
10:45Behold, from now on all generations will proclaim me blessed.
10:51In this stanza, the Virgin Mary occupied a very proper and personal place.
10:57In it, by pure divine choice,
10:59The fulfillment of God's promises to his people has already begun.
11:04Within it the Messiah, the Lord's anointed one, is being formed.
11:10Maria's exclamation,
11:12Behold, he will proclaim me blessed,
11:16It is, firstly, a clear allusion to her motherhood,
11:21because his expression evokes Elijah's cry
11:24upon learning that she was going to give her husband another child.
11:27Blessed am I, for women will proclaim me blessed.
11:33And secondly, it reveals his prophetic vision.
11:38Future generations, until the end of time,
11:42They will proclaim her blessed,
11:44because of the wonderful fact of being the mother of the Messiah.
11:48But brothers, we must not forget that it was Luke who put this phrase on Mary's lips.
11:55This reveals the profound veneration that the early church already paid to the mother of the Lord.
12:03If the Magnificat is a personal song of Mary,
12:07It is no less a song of the chosen people.
12:11Maria is not only playing her own individual role,
12:15but is personified to all Israel.
12:19She is the spokesperson for her people.
12:23Mary takes up the words that the people have addressed to God for many centuries.
12:29And it represents those Israelites who obeyed God's commandments,
12:35who kept their alliance and trusted that a day would come.
12:40And now is the time when the Lord will fulfill his promises.
12:45In this sense, the Magnificat is the pinnacle of the piety of God's people.
12:52To truly understand the Magnificent, one must read it in the context in which it is found.
12:58on the borders between the Old and New Testaments.
13:02The anthem is illuminated by what has preceded it and at the same time illuminates what will follow.
13:08The Magnificat proclaims that the hopes of the first alliance are now being fulfilled
13:15and that the kingdom of God is about to appear.
13:20Brothers, that concludes our session for today.
13:24I look forward to seeing you at our next session.
13:26where we will continue to delve into this magnificent literary work
13:31through the chapters that allow us to get to know this character so special to all Christians.
13:39Mary, the Mother of God.
13:42Blessings to you and your families.
14:01Thank you.