Yesterday was the Feast of the Annunciation of Our Lord, in which we remember the announcement of the Christ-Child by the archangel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus’ conception by the Holy Spirit in the Virgin’s womb. Beginning on this day, nine months before the Nativity of Our Lord at Christmas, God took on human flesh in order that as the God-Man He might take our sin upon Himself and rescue us from sin, death, and the power of the devil. In Christ, humanity is restored. As Jesus has been born to be the new Adam and the firstborn of the new creation, so now all who are born again through being united with Christ in Holy Baptism have become part of the restored humanity as children of God and have the promise of complete renewal and restoration in Christ.
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