When God willed to become Man, He had to decide on the time of his coming, the country in which He would be born, the city in which he would be raised, the people, the race, the political and economic systems which would surround Him, the language He would speak and the psychological attitudes with which He would come in contact as the Lord of all of history and the Savior of the world. All these details would depend entirely on the one factor. The Woman who would be His Mother. To choose a Mother is to choose a social position, a language, a city, an environment, a crisis, and a a destiny. His Mother was not like ours, whom we accepted as something historically fixed, which we could not change. He was born of a Mother whom He chose before He was born. It is the only instance in history where both the Son willed the Mother, and the Mother willed the Son. This is what the Creed means when it says: Born of the Virgin Mary. She was called by God as Aaron was, and our Lord was born not just of Her Flesh, but by Her consent. Before taking unto Himself a Human Nature, He consulted with the Woman, to ask Her is she would give Him a Man. The Manhood of Jesus was not stolen from Humanity, as Prometheus stole fire from Heaven, it was given as a Gift. The First Man Adam was made from the slime of the earth. The First Woman was made from a man in ecstasy. The New Adam, Christ, come from the The New Eve, Mary, in an Ecstasy of Prayer and Love of God and the Fullness of Freedom. Bishop Fulton Sheen
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