We are all called to be "co-workers in truth" and the Truth has a name in the person of Jesus Christ whom we believe when He said, I am the "Way, the Truth and the Life". Thus, everyone has a role and participation in God's redemptive work, working out our "salvation in fear and trembling". It is a choice we have to make.
We turn to Mother Mary, addressed by the Angel as full of grace "kecharitomene" as the masterpiece of creation, faithful co-redemptrix in God's salvific plan. She responded in complete submission, "let it be done unto me according to His Word", overshadowing all her existing plan and repercussions in Jewish society.
Teaching us in our earthly life to "do as He (Jesus) tells you"- a continual submission to the "Word became Flesh".
God, in His love and mercy, had began the work of salvation from the first fall of humanity, "I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel" (Gen 3:15). The "woman" Mary that brought forth Jesus, the Messiah. Though there are many workers in the Vineyard of God, Mary though human had personified the "fullness of life" for which Jesus came to bring.
For this, Mary's role in salvific history can not be ignored, and how could we miss out revering and loving the person that God had "so favored".
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