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December 04, 2025 2 min read
After the tragedy of sin, God reacts with an outburst of Mercy that He alone is capableof. The Bible tells us what God felt and what God decided at the moment when man poisoned the creation that had come forth so beautifully from His hands. Here is God's reaction: "Then the Lord God said to the snake: I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; She will crush your head, and you will lie in wait for her heel" (Gen 3:15). These wonderful words of God find their fulfillment in the Annunciation of the Angel Gabriel to Mary. At that moment, in the "yes" of Mary, the chain of our "no's" was interrupted. And in Mary's humility and obedience, God found the door to re-enter history from which human pride had attempted to exclude Him.
In the Holy Door (in the third panel), we find the scene of the Annunciation with most delicate: Mary has her eyes closed to express trust and total abandonment, while the Angel's delicate step seems to bring human history back to the beauty of the beginning.The moment is intensely profound. St. Bernard, in the 12th century, gazing upon this scene, addressed the Madonna thus: "O Mary, the Angel awaits your answer. We are also waiting for this gift of yours, which is a gift from God. The weight of our redemption lies in your bands. Answer quickly, O Virgin! Speak, O Lady, the word that heaven and earth and even the underworld are waiting for".And Mary said: "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. Let it be done to me according to your word" (Lk 1:38). With this "yes", the story of humanity's return to God begins: a story that is still unfolding and in which we too are involved.
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O Mary, with you we too want to say our "yes"!
We are often fragile, restless, inconstant... but still... children!Help us repeat your
"Here I am!" to taste with you the joy of the Magnificat and to spread it in the sad furrows of today's world.
Amen.
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— Cardinal Angelo Comastri
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