Election is about who is chosen, and who chooses, and means more than political decision-making. Mary is chosen, elect of God, as mother of the coming Messiah.
"Hail Mary!" is the most outrageously empowering greeting to a young teenage woman. No wonder 'she was greatly troubled'.
"May it be to me as you have said." There are hinge moments in every relationship that push beyond the superficial now, pivotal points when choices are made that have forever consequences.
Advent is about that precarious moment of time, when an angel waited, what seemed like an eternity, for a young woman's 'Yes'.
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