Loosing the Knot of Human Sin: Mary’s Yes to God
Posted: March 25, 2018 Filed under: Etcetera | Tags: Galatians 4: 4 In the fulness of time..., Luke 1: 38 "May it be done to me according to your word!", Mary and the Archangel Gabriel, Mary as Theotokos, Mary's obedience undoes Eve's disobedience, Mary's yes to God begins salvation, The Feast of the Annunciation Leave a comment
Fishing can be a wonderful past-time. It can also be frustrating. Though getting “skunked” presents its disappointment, nothing is more frustrating than the inexplicable, insoluble, and massive knot that can come off the bail. There is no time to undo the undoable. You cut, retie as quickly as possible, and cast again. Fortunately, God has patience with such messes.
The Fall produced its own insoluble knot. Pride, deceit, disobedience, cowardice, and capitulation destroyed the simplicity and clarity of the Garden. The “No!” shouted out by our first parents drew all of humanity and all of creation into the massive tangle of the knot of sin, death, darkness, and alienation. All of human history existed in this tangle of misery. However, we weren’t left in this twisted prison: “But when the fulness of time came, God sent his Son, born from woman…” (Gal 4: 4).
