Ave Maria Meditations
The coming of the Son of God on earth is so great an event that God willed to prepare the way for it during centuries. He made rites and sacrifices, figures and symbols, all converge towards Christ; He for told Him, announced Him by the mouth of the prophets who succeeded one another from generation to generation.
And now it is the very Son of God who comes to instruct us. For Christ is not only born for the Jews who lived in His time, it is for us all, for all mankind, that He came down from heaven: for us and for our salvation, He came down from heaven. He wills to distribute to every soul the grace that He merited by His nativity.
We are to be partakers of that divinity to which our humanity is united. It is like an exchange! God, in becoming incarnate, takes our human nature and gives us, in return, a participation in His divine nature.
Let us, therefore, stay for a few moments to admire, with the Church, this exchange between the creature and the Creator, between heaven and earth, an exchange upon which all the mystery of the nativity is based.
Prayer: O Christ Jesus, Incarnate Word, Son of Mary, come and live in Thy servants with Thy Spirit of holiness, the fullness of Thy power, the reality of Thy virtues, the perfection of Thy ways, the communication of Thy mysteries and overcome all hostile powers by Thy Spirit to the glory of the Father. Amen.
Blessed Columba Marmion
