It was this poor girl from Galilee who stood in wonder by the manger as shepherds and astrologers from Persia came to worship her baby boy. Mary’s life was a burgeoning awareness of the truth of the Word of God, an awareness that was at once the fulfillment of the prophecy of Simeon about Mary: “And a sword shall pierce your own soul too” (Luke 2:35). She shows us how to live now such that, when we die, we too may be raised to glory and victory and immortality. But as the mother of Jesus of Nazareth, she reveals what it is to live a life of faith in God here on earth, amid the shadows of the flesh ‑ she reveals the kind of life that leads to the fulfillment of the promises of God for a Christian in his or her particularity. Under the title “Regina Caeli,” Mary reveals our own future as heirs of the Kingdom. And so Mary’s cousin, Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, said of the Blessed Virgin: “Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord” (Luke 1:45). The Gospels are insistent that Mary believed, that she entrusted herself, body and soul, to the power of the Holy Spirit in her great fiat: “Be it unto me according to thy word” (Luke 1:38).
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