Mary’s Fiat: Trusting God in the Unexpected

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Today the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Mary’s nativity. Mary’s life is a source of wisdom for all of us, particularly when we face uncertain seasons and moments in life. In this episode, Dr. Sri unpacks the mystery of Mary’s fiat, and shows us how we can learn from Mary when life takes unexpected turns.

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Mary’s fiat was not a passive surrender, but rather a joyful abandonment and longing to fulfill the dreams of her beloved God.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life. What do in those moments in life when things don't turn out the way you are hoping for?
0:19.2	You know, maybe you had a certain plan in your head for your day or for your life or your career or your family
0:24.3	or your marriage and then things just turned out differently.
0:28.2	There was a big interruption in your day, there was a big problem at work, there were new unexpected
0:31.8	challenges in your family life, what do you do in those moments?
0:35.0	Maybe you had a certain dream, a certain vision, and things just turned out differently.
0:39.8	You know, in these moments or these seasons in life, I like to think about not so much what
0:45.0	would Jesus do W W J D I like to think about those things but but he's God I mean he
0:51.0	already knew everything you know it's in these moments when you face the unexpected
0:55.8	that I like to think about W W. W. M. D what would Mary do? What would Mary do?
1:02.1	Because Mary she was given unique graces, extraordinary
1:05.8	privileges, but yet she still had to walk by faith and not by sight. And there were many
1:11.2	times in life when something unexpected happened, some turn of event, and she has to find God's will in there.
1:18.0	And I think we could see this most especially in her Fiat, the Fiat that she gave at the enunciation and she renewed over and over again
1:26.4	throughout her life. We as Catholics are very familiar with those words, be it done unto me
1:30.8	according to your word, behold I'm the handmaiden of the Lord these are beautiful
1:34.6	words from Luke 138 I want to unpack those words for us here to get to the heart of the
1:40.3	mystery of Mary's Fiat.
1:43.0	You know, this week the Catholic Church is celebrating the Feast of Mary's birthday.
1:47.0	So we should all say, Happy Birthday, Mary,
1:49.0	the Feast of our Lady's Nativity.
1:51.0	And it was three years ago that I started this
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