Our Blessed Mother, who generously responded “yes” to the Lord’s will for her life ( “ Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord let it be to me according to your word ” ) is a beautiful role model for us. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross’ (Philippians 2:5-8)” (paragraphs 456-461). “‘Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. Paul, the Church sings the mystery of the Incarnation: John’s expression, “The Word became flesh,” the Church calls ‘Incarnation’ the fact that the Son of God assumed a human nature in order to accomplish our salvation in it. “The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4)… “The Word became flesh to be our model of holiness…. ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life’ (John 3:16). “The Word became flesh so that thus we might know God’s love: ‘In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him’ (1 John 4:9). “The Word became flesh for us in order to save us by reconciling us with God, who ‘loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins’: ‘the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world,’ and ‘he was revealed to take away sins’ (1 Jn. The Catechism of the Catholic Church instructs us further about the Incarnation: “Why did the Word become flesh? With the Nicene Creed, we answer by confessing: ‘For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven by the power of the Holy Spirit, he became incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and was made man.’ “The Incarnation is therefore the mystery of the wonderful union of the divine and human natures in the one person of the Word” ( Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 479-483). “Christ, being true God and true man, has a human intellect and will, perfectly attuned and subject to his divine intellect and divine will, which he has in common with the Father and the Holy Spirit. “Jesus Christ possesses two natures, one divine and the other human, not confused, but united in the one person of God’s Son. “Jesus Christ is true God and true man, in the unity of his divine person for this reason he is the one and only mediator between God and men. In the “In Brief” section explaining the Incarnation, we read: “At the time appointed by God, the only Son of the Father, the eternal Word that is, the Word and substantial Image of the Father, became incarnate without losing his divine nature he has assumed human nature. The moment when Mary said “yes” and Jesus was conceived in her womb by the power of the Holy Spirit is called the Incarnation.
And he came to her and said, ‘Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!” “In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David and the virgin’s name was Mary. The first half of the Hail Mary comes from Luke 1:26-56, when the Angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she had been called to be the Mother of Jesus, the Son of God: In this traditional, time-honored prayer, we humbly ask the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, to pray for us. The Hail Mary prayer (also known as the “Ave Maria” prayer, from its first words in Latin) is a well-loved, beautiful prayer.