Day 10 Advent Reflection

Mary experienced more than one night on her journey as a mother. Since her first appearance, in the narrative of the Gospels, her figure stands out as if she were a character in a drama. It was not easy to respond with a “yes” to the Angel’s invitation: yet she, a woman in the flower of her youth, responds with courage, despite knowing nothing of the fate that awaits her. In that instant, Mary appears to us as one of the many mothers of our world, courageous to the extreme when it comes to welcoming, in one’s own womb, the history of a new man to be born.

(~ from Pope Francis’ “A Light in the Night – Meditations on Hope.” (Jubilee 2025), ‘Mother of Hope’)

He has mercy on those who fear him
in every generation.