December 8, 2014 Feast of the Immaculate Conception
Genesis,
Chapter 3, verse 8-10:
'8
The man and his wife heard the sound of
Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from
Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
9 But Yahweh God
called to the man. 'Where are you?' he asked. 10 'I heard the sound of you in the garden,' he
replied 'I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.'
Before
the fall both Adam and Eve were unafraid of being exposed to God and they were
innocent in that they knew not that they were naked. Adam states I heard the sound of you in the
garden. We do not know what the sound of
God is from the verse. Was it the same
sound as a man walking in the garden? Or
was it the sound of a rushing wind? We do not know; but Adam heard God and he
was afraid because he was naked.
On
the cross our Lord who always heard the Father was now utterly alone,…And at
the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, 'Eloi, eloi, lama sabachthani?'
which means, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' and he was also naked
nailed to a tree. Tradition states that our Lord’s cross rested on the skull of
Adam in payment for the fall. Our Lord
paid the ultimate price for our sins.
Christ
on the cross reversed the taking of the fruit and the eating by Adam and Eve
and became the fruit of life. Christ on
the cross reversed the nakedness of Adam and Eve by being naked himself. Christ on the cross no longer heard the
Father and He was afraid.
Mary
who was conceived without sin on this Feast day of the Immaculate Conception is
our example of courage in the presence of God and His angels. Then the angel said to
her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Behold, you will conceive in your womb and
bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus.
(Luke 1:30-31)
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