Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

Narrator:  In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, Commentator:  Nazareth? God sent an angel to the podunk, insignificant, nothing of a town called Nazareth? Narrator:  Yes, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, Angel:  “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.” Narrator:  But she was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. Commentator:  What kind of greeting is that Mary? Had you ever been called favored before? Mary. They are all called Mary aren’t they? Mary the sister of Lazarus, Mary from Magdala, That other Mary and Mary the mother of Jesus. So common a name. Almost as though when the writers couldn’t remember a woman’s name they just automatically called her Mary. Like Jane Doe- it’s just this side of forgettable Mary. So common but yet now angelically deemed “favored one”. What kind of perplexing greeting is this cal