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The gospels tell us nothing about Mary's pregnancy except for its very beginning and its end. But without straying into pious fantasy or fiction, and since nothing indicates that hers was in any way not a normal pregnancy, it's not inappropriate to meditate on the not-so-simple truth of the Word made Flesh growing among us.
Growing in Mary’s body, a body that changed like any woman’s during pregnancy. Her breasts grew heavier, the first visible sign of pregnancy as the body prepares to nourish a child. A slight thickening, a bump, a bulge, and then a firm, strong, weighty place, a home for the child, forming in warm darkness.
Slowly, the baby makes himself known directly. He flutters at first, like shy butterflies inside you, movement so slight and unexpected you are never sure if it is you or him. It is hard to tell the difference, hard to separate it out.
Then there is a kick. A definite kick.
Finally, near the end, when you are so heavy and there is just the thinnest, ever-tightening layer of skin and muscle between the baby and the rest of the world, there is no doubt that…
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And may we to add to the above sweet reflection, what hope for us is contained in the fact that even Mary as Immaculate and devoid of sin, that is, absent the human urge to be without God, and Jesus even in His Divine Hunanity…that both underwent a lifelong journey by which the fullness of each one’s mission became clearer and clearer, leading right up to the Cross, and through the Cross, to the Resurerction, and to the early seeds of Church with Mary at its prayerful center. So, then, must we who are not Immaculately conceived nor divine by nature, traverse our own deepening journey to God by the abundant graces given to us from Christ, Church, and Mary, albeit with our own twists and turns, ups and downs, until we too have begun to give Him birth. This is demonstrably possible for the human being, for we point and venerate its actuality today in a uniquely created human being, the Immaculate One. And we point to the power and source of that actuality, the Incarnate One. What could the race possibly ask for that would be better or more sublime than these? Pray with me that the human race come to conversion by the sheer power and mystery of Mary and by the Incarnation; that we as a race of fallen beings come to see what divine love and grace really are and thus begin transformation into Him.