Holy Mary, Mother of God

Luke 1:31~And now, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus. 32~ He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David.

Long before the angel Gabriel ever appeared in Nazareth to a young virgin, there was a plan for God to come down, to be with His people in the flesh. 

From the very beginning, God knew that He would join His creatures, and that He would dwell among them in a human body. 

Now, He is God, so He could have just made Himself a body and come down as a human adult, but that wasn't the plan. 

Way back in the Scriptures the prophets spoke: 
Isaiah 7
14Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and she will call Him Immanuel. 

The plan had been in place even before the creation of man, but then when the mother of humanity, Eve, committed the first sin, the plan had to include not only God coming to dwell with us in a physical body, but God's body, blood and all, being offered as a sacrifice to save us. 

The type of Eve was to be a part of this plan of salvation, and so the new Eve would be the one who would be asked for the gift of her Body, and who would receive the Word and bring forth the Savior. This Savior would be the new Adam and He would put out what the old Adam had ushered in. 

Mary, the mother of God, was a real young woman, in a real little town, with a real father and mother, and real plans to be married to her betrothed, Joseph. 

She lived a real life, just like everyone else, except for one major difference, in order that the Son of God should be surrounded by a spotless womb, His mother was conceived without sin. He was carried in a perfect and pure Ark, through all nine months of her confinement. 

The woman that bore Him was without sin, so that He could come and defeat sin.

Mary, is the mother of the King, she is the mother of the One who came to declare war on the darkness. She is the woman clothed with the Sun. 

Of all the human bodies that have ever been, or ever will be, of all the feminine gifts, and of all the women that have been privileged to walk this earth and give life, Mary is the model, and the hope of our future. 

She was given life, she was mother of the Giver of life, and she is the mother of us all. 

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us who have recourse to thee....