THE KING OF GLORY COMES

Today I heard an interesting analogy...and if you think of it, it is very true.  We are taught that the creation of women, that they are weak and lowly  entities, something of a second class citizen..a lessor creation of God.  Yet, God chose a lowly handmaid to be the original Monstrance...the sacred vessel for the Holy Eucharist. The womb of Mary became the sacred receptacle that nurtured the unborn Christ child. God did not chose a man to bring forth the King Of Glory, but a "lowly" woman.  God... Omnipotent...all powerful, could have sent His only begotten Son, to and where and in any manner he chose.  He chose Mary.  God chose a woman to bring forth His own Spirit to a become man.

In our modern culture, here in the "good ol' US of A," and across the earth, women are still often held with a
certain lowly attitude.  And in some countries women are badly treated, abused or enslaved. 

When the angel Gabriel came to Mary and announced that she would bear the King of Glory,  women, most especially The Blessed Virgin, were elevated by the Creator.  Elizabeth, too old to bear a child, was also given a gift of bearing a sacred soul.  And by some accounts, Mary Magdalen, was an Apostle of Christ.  It was she who washed the feet of the mature Christ with her hair and expensive oils.  It was also she who discovered the empty tomb of Christ and was addressed by an angel, therein.  There is more to be said about the status of women in the days of Christ.  There are even proponents that some of the epistles were written by women.  Doesn't all this point to a certain aspect that God, Himself, had a prevailing affinity with women, whom He also created?  They too, (we)are His Own, and I have been told...That God doesn't make mistakes.

All points can be argued for and also against. I feel compelled to follow the teachings of the church.  I am not exactly sure where the church stands on the subject: I'll have to look it up.

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