Today's Gospel March 25 2020 with comment

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Luke 1,26-38.
At that time, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth,
to a virgin, betrothed to a man from the house of David, called Joseph. The virgin was called Maria.
Entering her, she said: "I salute you, full of grace, the Lord is with you."
At these words she was disturbed and wondered what was the meaning of such a greeting.
The angel said to her: «Do not be afraid, Mary, because you have found grace with God.
Behold, you will conceive a son, give birth to him and call him Jesus.
He will be great and called the Son of the Most High; the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David
and he will reign forever over the house of Jacob and his reign will have no end. "
Then Mary said to the angel, "How is this possible? I don't know man ».
The angel replied: "The Holy Spirit will descend on you, the power of the Most High will cast his shadow over you. He who is born will therefore be holy and called the Son of God.
See: Elizabeth, your relative, in her old age, also conceived a son and this is the sixth month for her, which everyone said sterile:
nothing is impossible for God ».
Then Mary said, "Here I am, I am the handmaid of the Lord, let what you have said be done to me."
And the angel left her.

Saint Amedeo of Lausanne (1108-1159)
Cistercian monk, then bishop

Martial Homily III, SC 72
The Word descended into the womb of the Virgin
The Word came to himself and descended below himself when he made himself flesh and lived among us (cf. Jn 1,14:2,7), when he stripped himself of himself, taking the form of a slave ( cf Phil XNUMX: XNUMX). His stripping was a descent. However, he descended so as not to be deprived of himself, he made himself flesh without ceasing to be Word, and without diminishing, taking humanity, the glory of his majesty. (...)

In fact, as the splendor of the sun penetrates the glass without breaking it, and as the gaze falls into a pure and peaceful liquid without separating or dividing it to probe everything to the end, so the Word of God entered the virginal abode and left it, while the breast of the Virgin remained closed. (...) The invisible God therefore became a visible man; he who could not suffer or die, showed himself suffering and mortal. He who escapes the limits of our nature, wanted to be contained in it. He closed himself in the womb of a mother, the one whose immensity encloses the whole of heaven and earth. And he who the heavens of the heavens cannot contain, the bowels of Mary embraced him.

If you look for how it happened, listen to the archangel explain to Mary the unfolding of the mystery, in these terms: "The Holy Spirit will descend on you, the power of the Most High will cast its shadow over you" (Lk 1,35:XNUMX). (…) For it is you who has chosen in preference to all and above all so that you may outweigh all those who, before or after you, have been or will be there for the fullness of grace.