“Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give” (Mt. 10:8) We are all beneficiaries of divine graces and so we are supposed to be benefactors of those graces to others.
Mother Mary is the greatest example of a “beneficiary becoming a benefactor”. She awaited, received and brought forth the Word of God (Jesus) for the world. Through the mystery of annunciation, she became the greatest beneficiary, and in the mystery of incarnation she became the greatest benefactor (Mother of the Son of God) to humanity. Without cost (pure gift) she received the Word of God and without cost she gave him to the world. Amen.
Mother Mary is the greatest advent model as a beneficiary of Word of God, and she turned out to be a benefactor of the WORD to the world by bearing and giving birth to Jesus. Amen.
Fr. Jerry Joseph Vallomkunnel MCBS