{"id":46574,"date":"2019-03-25T10:45:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T15:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=46574"},"modified":"2019-03-27T13:26:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T18:26:59","slug":"the-annunciation-on-the-lenten-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/25\/the-annunciation-on-the-lenten-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Annunciation on the Lenten Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you count Sundays, today, March 25<sup>th<\/sup>, puts us exactly twenty days into Lent.&nbsp; If Lent is forty days, we are exactly half-way through.&nbsp; (If you\u2019re running calculations in your head, just embrace my Lenten Math and call it close-enough-for-ecclesial-work!)&nbsp; <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"334\" height=\"151\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image-1.jpeg 334w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image-1-300x136.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What does Lent look like at this fleeting middle juncture?&nbsp;  Am I regretting my half-hearted attempts to become better at prayer, fasting, and almsgiving?&nbsp; Or am I worried about not having enough time left in this season to adequately <em>experience <\/em>the spiritual preparation and cleansing that Lent is meant to foster?&nbsp; What is my Lenten \u201cjourney\u201d <em>supposed<\/em> to look like? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m very good at regretting the past and worrying about the\nfuture.&nbsp; Unfortunately, those twin poles\nof activities end up squandering the present.&nbsp;\nIf I stop my distracted staring into what has been and what has not yet\ncome to be, what does the present moment have to say about Lent?&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 25<sup>th<\/sup>, like so many other feasts and popular saints that get tucked into the penitential season (St. Patrick, St. Joseph, the Transitus of St. Benedict), is the Annunciation of the Lord.&nbsp; The angel Gabriel came to Mary of Nazareth to announce that she had found favor with God, and that her Son, whose name would be Jesus, would be called great&#8211;the Son of the Most High&#8211;and his kingdom would have no end (<a href=\"http:\/\/usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/032519.cfm\">Luke 1:26-38<\/a>).&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"347\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image-347x400.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image-347x400.png 347w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image-260x300.png 260w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image.png 437w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This particular moment in the long story of salvation history is certainly a moment of unsettledness, uncertainty, and even fear for Mary.&nbsp; She would have every right to regret the angel\u2019s breaking in to her (assumedly) fairly normal life, and to worry intensely about what the future would hold.&nbsp; Perhaps this moment where the angel bends down to speak to Mary is also a half-way point in the story of salvation history&#8211;a blip in the center between the long unfolding wonder of the Old Testament, and what had not yet been unveiled in the New.&nbsp; Whatever smattering of thoughts Mary may have been having about the past or the future&#8211;she looks up at the angel and responds in the present:&nbsp; \u201cBehold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.&nbsp; May it be done to me according to your word.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this moment of the Annunciation, Mary is able to say something about who she IS, in order to step forward into who she will BECOME.  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