Intecessors of the Lamb

Our Lady, Virgin of virgins, was prepared by God to be the special dwelling place of His only begotten Son; the Holy Mother of Jesus Incarnate. “For She is the refulgence of eternal Light, the spotless mirror of the power of God” (Wis. 7:26). She is our model of all grace who lovingly draws us into Her womb of safe refuge where, in the stillness of the night, we too are “given a new birth to a living hope…to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled and unfading (1Ptr.1: 4). His power is at work in us while we gratefully remain hidden in Her antle of docility and grace until “the mystery hidden from ages past has been manifested to His holy ones… it is Christ in you, the hope for glory” (Col. 2:26-27).

So we press on in this hope, drawing strength from our Master, Who in His great humility “bounded, a fierce warrior, into the doomed land” only to be wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger, a helpless Babe, yet Savior of the world (Wis. 18:15). Let our hearts gaze then, upon the Bethlehem crèche on this silent, holy night, in this place where all is calm and bright, for “the Light shines in darkness and the darkness has not overcome the Light” (Jn. 1:5). In this Light we also are prepared, like Our Lady, “to become a dwelling place for God in the Spirit… A body you have prepared for me; Behold, I come to do your will” (Eph. 2:22; Heb. 10: 5,7).