When the angel appeared to Mary and she responded with "I am the Lord's servant. May everything you have said about me come true," did she really know what she was agreeing to? When the angel said, "Greetings, you who are highly favoured! The Lord is with you," was the Lord really with her? In all the trouble, in the heart-break? What about our own lives? Are trials and trouble a sign that God is not with us? Au contraire! Quite the opposite! They are there to prove the genuineness of our faith if we too are favoured by God.
Michael ODonovan
Praise is our weapon! Jesus sang at the Last Supper and in the Garden of Gethsemane as He faced into His death on the...
Tom Burke