April 5, 2025
There is a question that dominates our whole life, in the details of every day, every action, every desire: but what do you want, what do you really want? What is it that moves you? What are you looking for in what you do? What is it that you want?
There is only one answer: each of us seeks, desires, craves, thirsts for happiness. We want to be happy; all the actions of our lives, everything we do, with all the means we have, the reason we woke up this morning is to be a little happier, to achieve some fulfilment.
And today the Church celebrates and announces the most wonderful news: your happiness, my happiness two thousand years ago became flesh. It has not allowed itself to reach us, but it has reached us. Happiness, what we exist for, what we seek, the fullness of our life became a man, and has travelled throughout history from that moment until it came to us, in our lives, in our homes, through the Church.
Jesus through the Christian proclamation came to your home and into your life to make Himself known to you and tell you: ‘It is I, I am the One you seek, what your heart desires this morning in that longing, in that anxiety, in that hope...it is I. And I am with you, I have not left you alone'.
The Annunciation is our happiness that became flesh and came into our lives not to leave us alone. And He wanted to do it through the ‘yes’, the freedom of a girl, of Mary. That is why we look to Her today with gratitude, emotion and affection. The Lord wanted to pass through her, through her freedom and her flesh. God's freedom became flesh inside the womb of a woman, asking her permission, asking her, as the Gospel has told us: ‘Do you want to? Will you allow Me, God, to become flesh and enter the world?’ The freedom of God brought to its knees before the freedom of a woman.
That is why we look to Mary, because all our happiness depended on that ‘yes’, to her who said: ‘Yes, let it be done to me as you have said’.
And so God entered the world forever, never to leave us again.
How beautiful it is today, at this time when it all seems so difficult and confusing, to be able to look to Our Lady, to live this day looking to Her and asking her: make it possible for me too to say my ‘yes’, so that Your Son may enter my day, enter my life, enter this world here, in the situation in which I find myself. May Mary's ‘yes’ become our ‘yes’.That is why we are here: to implore Our Lady to continue what began in her and may God become flesh today, through us, in the world.
