An angel in the bedroom- The Annunciation of the Lord- Luke 1: 26-38
Somewhere in the loud voice of the Church, projecting over the centuries, the big “yes” of Mary, is an adolescent girl who was terrified on seeing an angel. Centuries of romanticising Mary’s ‘yes’ has perhaps taken away from her, the overwhelmingly shocking fear of finding an angel hovering in her bedroom (the bedroom part is prose license). This was big news for Mary and it would take a lot more than a ‘I think you need to sit down and listen to this one’. And yet from this simple Jewish maiden comes the ‘yes’ that gave us so great a redeemer.