Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

In the last few meditations, we've explained what St Louis de Monfort and St. Maximilian Colby and others have understood that Mary makes the Holy Spirit visible.

Now she's not the Holy Spirit, she's a human person and the Holy

Spirit is a divine person, but they are so intimately united that Mary is the created embodiment or manifestation of the Holy Spirit in being and action.

This is why St. John Paul II said that in Mary we see the face of the Holy Spirit. So the more we turn to Mary, the more powerfully the Holy Spirit works in our life.

Now, we may have a hard time accepting this about Mary

because we have a hard time accepting God's plan for us.

This is one reason Mary is so important

because we see in her what God wants to do in us.

God has raised Mary to such a staggering height,

but many cannot accept what God has done for her because they blur the distinction between

God and what he has done for Mary.

So let's begin by setting boundaries that we may preserve the infinite difference between God and Mary and the rest of humanity.

God is the Father Almighty, the source of all that is, all things visible and invisible.

He's eternal, infinite, unchangeable, all powerful, all knowing and all good.

Neither Mary nor we possess these divine attributes on our own.

All that being true, God raised Mary's being and activity to participate in a created way in what belongs to God, enabling

her to be the mother of God and the human manifestation of the Spirit. And that's why Mary rejoices in the Magnificat proclaiming the Almighty

has done great things for me. Holy is his name.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow it be your name,

Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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