A Different Beat

                      The barren womb symbolized by the Blessed Mary's Virginity is made fruitful by the FIAT she uttered from the very depths of her obedient and trusting heart.             It was said that after the fall of man and woman (Adam and Eve), God the Father went to his Son and confide the matter and asked what is to be done. After, some time the Son told the Father… YES Father I will go to redeem the world.   This is nothing but a story but it tells something of man’s salvation… Here begins the world’s redemption: The YES of God the Son to the Father. His Eternal AMEN began it all.             The theme for today’s novena is Mary’s Fiat . St. Luke’s account during the annunciation ended with these marvelous words: Ecce ancilla Domini, FIAT mihi secundum Verbum tuum.   Mary responded pos...

  The Cross was embraced by you my dear Jesus. You carried it in your arms prayerfully and without any complaint. The nails fastened you to the wood of the cross. By these nails you allowed yourself to be firmly secured to the wood that everyone abhors. The wood of the Cross was horrible enough and the nails have made you physically and symbolically united to all that represents the fallen humanity. The nails were driven to your hands and feet. You hear the deafening pounding sound of the hammer as it pierces your hands and feet.   You feel the excruciating pain it gives and yet like a trusting lamb, you allowed yourself to be led to the slaughter. What an example of charity? What a model of docile obedience? The charity of the passion and docile obedience are landmarks of Franciscan spirituality. St. Francis of Assisi have contemplated such nail-wounds in his body too. He who has been endowed with the five marks of the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ knew too well how it i...

           What a bold proclamation when Jesus said: Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away! If we were contemporaries and would hear Jesus talk this way, then one thing will enter into our minds… this man very funny but he has completely lost his common sense. Certainly, no man who is in his right man would make such an uncalled for proclamation: Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away! Jesus is not making a political statement for he was no politician, he was not expressing a professional medical opinion for he was not an expert in the field. If there was anything that Jesus is good at, it is carpentry the profession he inherited from Joseph. And carpenters do not make such statements: Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away! What then is Jesus saying here, simply he is revealing himself as the definitive Word of the Father. His statement can only be understood by men of fai...