"Nothing is Impossible" with God

"Nothing will be impossible with God," the angel tells Mary in today's Gospel, Luke 1: 26-38.  Messengers from heaven, to this very day, say to each one of us: "Nothing will be impossible with God."  The Spirit, God's communicator that dwells within our very being, repeatedly directs us to do something, to say something, to believe in God's plan for us or for another person. What is being asked we are able to accomplish because "nothing is impossible for God".  Like Mary, we need to be reminded from time to time and, many times, are the ones God calls upon to remind others: "You have found favor with God," or need to be told that we "are full of grace" since our baptism, our confirmation and at every Holy Communion when God, hidden in the consecrated host, comes to nourish us, purify us and strengthen us on our journey to our eternal home.  Why? Because "nothing is impossible with God"!  God spoke and the world was made. God spoke at the Last Supper--"Take and eat; this is my body. Take and drink; this is my blood poured out for you"-- and  the bread and the wine became the body and blood of the "Lamb of God" sacrificed for our sins as lambs, in the Old Covenant, were sacrificed as recompense for the sins of the Chosen People then. When the priest, at a Catholic Mass, says "Take and eat; this is my Body" and "Take and drink; this is my blood," the bread and the wine become the Lord Jesus--body, blood, soul and divinity--because "Nothing is impossible with God"!

The "Nothing is Impossible with God"  began with the creation of the world and continues in its re-creation every day in us and in all of creation! Immanuel--God with us--is forever!