The feast of the Annunciation

 

                            Bibliothèque-médiathèque de Nancy, Manuscrit 305 (fol. 54). 

In his introduction to Psalm 138, St Cassiodorus comments:

So this entire psalm — and this is also the view of the most learned father Hilary — is to be recited by the mouth of the Lord Christ. His lowliness must not however trouble or disturb anyone; to avoid this, each must have recourse to the canon of Catholic teaching, to remember that there are two natures united and perfected in the Lord Christ. 

The first is that by which He is God, coeternal with the Father; the second that by which He was born of the virgin Mary, and as one and the same Person deigned in time to become Man for our salvation. So the fact that He speaks in humble tones must not be a reflection on His divinity, but is to be understood in accordance with the mystery of the holy incarnation. 

Once we have considered this reasoning, we can acknowledge the divine mysteries without stumbling... He expounds the power of the Father's divinity, for in so far as He Himself is a man He cannot conceal Himself from the Father's observation in any place or at any distance. He adds that by His glorious sanctity He has overcome the world's vices, and has been preserved in the sheltering womb of His mother.