Tomorrow we will celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. We believe that Mary, when conceived by her mother, St. Anne, was already freed from original sin. Mary was born without original sin. It is not hard to believe because from her, the Son of God, Jesus, would be born. She was the Immaculate Conception because of Jesus, the Son of God. God decided that the second person of the Trinity would humble Himself to become one like us. It was God's gesture of His love for humanity that the Incarnation happened.
The Immaculate Conception is therefore an expression of the respect of God to His Creation. Creation was worthy of His Sons' Incarnation. In the light of the event that is happening now in Bali and in how we are treating God's creation, are we fulfilling the dignity that God had bestowed on us? Are we giving the same respect and importance to it? If we observe our ways, we are far from it. Abortion is prevalent. Drugs are making people addictive and forces him to degrade himself and others. Wars bring destruction to all creation human or not, guilty or ignorant. Sickness, caused by mans promiscuity, abuse, greed and others are prevalent. Calamities caused by human abuse of nature happen in almost every part of this world. The world God gave is only one. It is the only one we've got. We have to take care of it. "We are the world and we are the children", as the song goes.
Let the feast of the Immaculate Conception make us look at ourselves and what we had contributed, should have contributed, not contributed and should not have contributed to this world. Time to account and be responsible. Time to change and be humble to accept our mistakes. Time to care and love our world the way God loved us!
Happy feast Of God's Respect to Creation!
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