Father Hubert Le Bouquin (At the Very Beginning the Immaculate Conception)
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In order for Jesus’ salvation to become the
salvation of mankind, he himself needed to be recognized as true man. Saint
Irenaeus rightly posits the distinction of being human in the fact of human
generation: “If he had not received from a human being the substance of his
flesh, he would not have become man, or son of man.”
Therefore, to God's will to become man, the world's will to give him human flesh had to correspond. Indeed God could not give himself to the world if the world had not agreed to the gift that was being offered. It is mankind's responsibility, as a free being, to give this agreement. Somewhere in the history of mankind, a human will to possess God had to be in total agreement with God's will to possess man to the point of becoming himself “part” of humanity. God needs a totally free “Yes” from the world. Mary is the woman whose fullness of freedom enabled her to match God's wish (...). She is the figure of humanity restored in the unity of his will, as a result of the call that she received to receive in her the humanity of the Word. Mankind cannot give God anything beyond its own humanity, but in doing so it gives to God what he could not give to himself. For God cannot enter the world and still remain faithful to the gift of freedom he gave man except by entering through the door of this human freedom. |
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