The new birth
Your son rose from the dead, and who announced it to you, Mary? Did another angel come? Because after the first one left you, it seems that no other angel came back. How was the encounter that you were expecting, since death could not be stronger than the "be done" of the Creator that you knew well how to make your own?
Cristian Diaz Yepes. LA RAZÓN 16-04-2020
Virgin Mother, God wanted you to learn to listen to Him as a man; first in yourself, in your heart full of Him and totally surrendered to Him. Between exiles, desert nights and the loss of your own son and your own God, He had accustomed you to be a woman of silence, trust and waiting. Thus you learned that there is no emptiness in yourself that God cannot fill, no absence that cannot be filled with hope. That is why, between the cross and Pentecost, the Gospel does not tell us what happened to you. God prefers to veil it in an intimacy in which we are begotten anew.
What the Gospel did tell us was the first announcement you received, as divine as the angelic greeting and as human as your question: "How is this possible...? How is it possible for the human to make room for God himself and thus become true humanity? "The Holy Spirit will come upon you" (Luke, 1:34), was the whole answer. That is why we think that at Easter it will not have been any different. The Spirit, accustomed to dwell in you and from you to become great, will have shown you your risen son as the most real and therefore most charged with mystery. You would continue to make him be born and grow in the children he gave you from his cross. And thus that word that one day became in you immaculate flesh, now becomes redeemed flesh, bread broken and forgiveness for the roads of the wide world and of time.
Mary of the encounter, the silence about the encounter with your risen son teaches us to be silent too. For our own humanity is charged with his presence. Our deserts and losses, calls to hope. And our question, "How can this be possible?" opens to the Spirit who lifts the fallen and heals the sick. From there we go out, step by step in our walk, where we meet him as neighbor. Then all unbelief and bewilderment are illuminated as we recognize him so deep within us as to fill us and so close as to unite us in a new birth....
