Today's readings are here: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/032612.cfm
"Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will."
When we read the above verse, which reveals our Lord's purpose in coming to earth, we should hear the Holy Spirit encourage us by saying, "Yes, you can do this". To do God's will, that is, to obey God, is to love God and our neighbor for the love of God to the point where we die to ourselves for God's glory and our neighbor's good. When we die to ourselves, we will bring forth Jesus in our lives in such a way that our bodies and all their parts will become Jesus' body and his parts. For this to happen, we have to trust, like Mary did, that "nothing shall be impossible for God" and that "the Holy Spirit will come upon us, and the power of the Most High will overshadows us". In other words, we have to believe that God is not going to call us to the perfection of love unless he is going to give us the strength of the Holy Spirit to accomplish it.
The Annunciation teaches us that God loves us, and wants his Son to be conceived in our hearts. Let us, then, as Mary did, offer our bodies to him, as living sacrifices, in the full assurance of faith that he who calls us to holiness will give us the power to respond to the call.
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