On this great solemnity, we celebrate Our Lady’s first and most important title as the “Holy Mother of God”. The Blessed Virgin was able to know and do God’s will primarily by reflecting on events that happened and were happening.
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The Gospel today says that Mary and Joseph “went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover… according to festival custom”.
Our Lady and St. Joseph always did everything the Law of the Lord required, and these things included not only going up to Jerusalem each year, but also the rite of circumcision of the child Jesus as well as the rites of “purification” of the mother and the “presentation” of the first-born son.
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On a night more than 2000 years ago, something extraordinary happened. And no one noticed. A child was born in a cave and laid not in a warm bed, but in the feeding box of the animals housed in that cave.
At the birth of this one child the salvation of the entire human race had finally begun and the truly omnipotent King of Kings and Lord of Lords had come among us to save us from sin and death.
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