“We are not merely forgiven; we are adopted by the Father as sons and daughters in spite of our sinfulness through the death and resurrection of Jesus.”
In this episode of A Minute with Mary, Paul reflects that we are all children of God, and of Mary, sharing in the very Blood of our Divine King in the Eucharist.
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Maybe we feel distance from Mary because while She is the sinless, royal Queen of heaven, we feel unworthy, stuck in our sin and far from anything royal. But this, as Scott Hahn says, reveals how poorly we have applied the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Pope Leo the Great said, “this is the gift that exceeds all others: God calls man His son, and man calls God ‘Father’.” Through baptism, we are indeed made children of God as St John stresses. The ancient Christians dared to call this action, ‘our divinization’. Then, 200 years later, St Athanasius would say, ‘we need – right now – to recover the early Church’s sense of awe, astonishment and gratitude for the gift at the heart of our redemption’.
The fact we are children of God is the central and most profound fact about redemption. We are not merely forgiven; we are adopted by the Father as sons and daughters in spite of our sinfulness through the death and resurrection of Jesus.
To be a brother or sister of Christ means we came from the same womb. So we can be confident that no matter what we have done or where we’ve been, we can approach the queen of heaven because we are Her children of royal birth, of noble blood – the Blood of Christ that we consume and becomes part of us – through the Eucharist!
