“i imagine that yes is the only living thing.”
E.E. Cummings
(Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden / Masaccio / 1425 / Florence )
(Bicci di Lorenzo / 1433-1434 / The Annunciation panels / private collection)
Please enjoy the Christmas Eve Homily offered by Bishop Gavin Ashenden.
Bishop Ashenden raises an interesting observation…
That in Eve’s having said “no” to God—in her refusal to His obedience,
man then fell victim to the addiction to sin and disobedience.
Mary in turn counters that sinfulness no by offering her simple “yes”….
And in Mary’s yes…she brings us all to God’s saving Grace.
Of which brings to all of humankind, through the birth of her son Yeshua,
the freedom from this never-ending cycle of disobedient addiction…
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