The Annunciation and Incarnation of God

The seed is the word of God, Christ is the sower; All who come to Christ will live for ever. 

(Mark 4:1-2)

God, on the day in which most holy Mary assumed the position of Mother of the eternal Word by conceiving Him in Her womb, the day of the Incarnation invested us with a right to our Redemption, founded upon the espousal of the human nature with Himself. In the consummation of this spiritual marriage by the beatification of the most Holy Mary and the conferring upon Her the gifts of glory, the same reward was also promised to us, if we should make ourselves worthy of it through the merits of Her most Holy Son, our Redeemer Jesus. But so far did the Lord raise His Mother above all the glory of the saints in the blessings of this day, that all the angels and men, even in their highest reaches of beatific vision and love, cannot attain to that which the heavenly Queen then attained; the same must also be said of the gifts of glory, which overflowed from the soul to her body; for all of them corresponded with her innocence, holiness and merits, and these again correspond with that highest of all dignities possible to a creature: that of being the Mother of her Creator.

Read: Volume II Book I Chapter XIII