GN 3:9-15, 20
PS 98:1, 2-3AB, 3CD-4
EPH 1:3-6, 11-12
LK 1:26-38
Today’s solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary is
about the redemption of human history and recovering our sense of who we truly
are in the eyes of God. The first reading recalling the Fall of Adam and Eve
points to the immediate distortion of how they viewed each other and how they
viewed God as a result of their sin and disobedience. Once that relationship
was broken by their disobedience, they came to see God who was the source of
everything good in their lives as an enemy and a threat and they also blame
each other for the sin they fell into. The second reading recalls a deeper
history though, remembering that since before the foundation of the world, God
called each one of us as his beloved children into his own adoption. We who are
lost are sought out and adopted by God who desires to call us (through the
life, death and resurrection of His Son) his beloved children.
Today is a day then, for us to be reminded of who we truly
are, not according to what I see in myself, but according to what God sees.
Because all of us have, to varying degrees, distorted visions of ourselves, we
cannot totally trust those judgments we come up with on our own. We do well to
let God have the first word and tell us who we are and what his plan of life is
for us.
Fr. Chris Collins, SJ is Assistant to the President for Mission and Identity.
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