Homily: The Annunciation (2025)

Homilest: ✠Jerome Seleisi

On this happy convergence of the Annunciation with the Third Tuesday of Lent, the Church invites us to contemplate the mystery of the Incarnation through the silence of Nazareth, the penitence of Lent, and the blood of the martyrs at the stational church of St. Pudentiana. In the Mass *Vultum tuum*, Mary appears as Queen and Bride, her fiat undoing Eve’s disobedience and opening history to the Word made flesh. The readings from Isaiah and Luke declare God’s initiative and Mary’s perfect cooperation, while the Lenten Last Gospel from Matthew 18 reminds us that Christ’s Incarnation founds a Church marked by mercy, correction, and unity. The Annunciation is not sentimental—it is the radical beginning of salvation, demanding our own fiat in obedience, silence, and liturgical reverence. The Virgin’s consent is the model of the Church and the soul: receptive, humble, and fruitful. Let us, like her, say: “Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum.”

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