Ave Maria Meditations
The Redemption All Were Awaiting…
The maker of man, He was made man, so that the director of the stars might be a Babe at the breast; that Bread might be hungry, and the Fountain thirsty; that the Light might sleep, and the Way be weary from a journey; that the Truth might be accused by false witnesses, and the Judge of the living and the dead be judged by a mortal judge; that Justice might be convicted by the unjust, and Discipline be scourged with whips; that the Cluster of grapes might be crowned with thorns, and the Foundation be hung up on a tree; that Strength might grow weak, eternal Health be wounded, Life die.
It was in order to endure these and similar indignities for our sake; in order to set free those who had forfeited all dignity, though he deserved no evil but endured such terrible evils on our behalf, and we deserved no good, but received such splendid goods through him; so it was for these reasons that the one who was before all ages the Son of God, without beginning of days, was prepared in these last days to become a son of man; and that the one who was born of the Father, not made by the Father, was made in the Mother whom He had made; so that He might exist here for a time, being born of her who could never and nowhere have existed except through Him.
+ St. Augustine
