"The Incarnation and all that it entailed, including the passion, death and resurrection of Christ and the birth of the Church, came about by way of Mary's freely uttered fiat."
~ Anglican-Roman Catholic statement on Mary
God’s decisive action enters the world not by force, but by consent. Mary’s fiat reveals that divine grace does not override human freedom; it awaits and honors it. In her simple “yes,” the eternal Word finds a home in time, and the drama of redemption unfolds—not as a spectacle of power, but as a collaboration of love. The statement reminds us that the Church itself is born in this same pattern: God acts mightily, yet always through humble, trusting openness, inviting every believer to echo Mary’s fiat so that Christ may again take flesh in the world.
