...the sixth month with her that is called barren : 37 Because no word shall be impossible with God. 38 And Mary said : Behold the handmaid of the Lord : be it done to me according to thy word. St. Mart. LESSON. Ezeck. i. — 10 And as for the likeness of their faces : there was the face of a...

...consent was asked when she became the VOL. VIII. M Mother of God. We remember her answer: " Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word" (Luke i. 38). Mary had no other will than God's will; therefore she willed fervently, intensely, whatever...

...world's redemption hung suspended on an act of her will, on a word from her lips ; she answered, Behold the handmaid of the Lord ; be it done to me according to thy word. Luke i. 38. "O humility," exclaims an ascetic author, " O humility, narrow to itself, ample enough...

...to her, who is called barren: for with God nothing shall be impossible. Mary then replied : Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done to me according to thy word. But thou, O Lord, have mercy on us. iy. Thanks be to God. 1^7. Receive, O Virgin Mary, the word which...

...shalt call his name Jesus . . . also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God . . . And Mary said : Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done to me according to thy word."1 In these few words we find the counterpart of the first portion of the history of man's fall...

...begotten Son, to become man in her most pure womb ! yes, for hardly had she uttered these words : Behold the handmaid of the Lord ; be it done to me according to thy word ; when immediately the Word was made flesh : " Verbum caro factum est ;" the Son of God became also...

...shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. And behold thy cousin Elizabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth...the Lord : be it done to me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her." St. Luke i. 26 - 38. Here manifestly is consent asked and consent...

...sixth • mouth with her that is called barren; because no word shall be impossible with God. Mary then said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word. Then the angel departed from her," and Mary found she was pregnant of the man God, whom the Holy Ghost...

...evidence that no word is impossible with God, then, but not till then, does she give her consent. " Behold the handmaid of the Lord : be it done to me according to thy word." There was then a moment when the salvation of the world depended on the consent of Mary. Man could...

...called the Son of the Most High.n Mary, whose consent was necessary, humbly submitted, saying : " Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done to me according to thy word ;* and immediately the Son of God became incarnate in the womb of Mary. Q. What remark do you make...