We should meditate on the mysteries of salvation
The child to be born of you will be called holy, the
Son of God, the fountain of wisdom, the Word of the ..
Father on high.
Through you, blessed Virgin, this Word will become
flesh, so that even though, as he says:
I am in the Father and the Father is in me, it is still
true for him to say:
“I came forth from God and am here.”
In the beginning was the Word.
The spring was gushing forth, yet still within
himself.
Indeed, the Word was with God, truly dwelling in
inaccessible light.
And the Lord said from the beginning:
I think thoughts of peace and not of affliction.
Yet your thought was locked within you, and
whatever you thought, we did not know;
for who knew the mind of the Lord, or who was his
..........counsellor?
And so the idea of peace came down to do the work
of peace:
The Word was made flesh and even now dwells
among us.
It is by faith that he dwells in our hearts, in our
memory, our intellect and penetrates even into our
imagination.
What concept could man have of God if he did not
first fashion an image of him in his heart?
By nature incomprehensible and inaccessible, he
was invisible and unthinkable, but now he wished to
be understood, to be seen and thought of.
But how, you ask, was this done?
He lay in a manger and rested on a virgin’s breast,
preached on a mountain, and spent the night in
prayer.
He hung on a cross, grew pale in death, and roamed
free among the dead and ruled over those in hell.
He rose again on the third day, and showed the
apostles the wounds of the nails, the signs of
victory;
and finally in their presence he ascended to the
sanctuary of heaven.
How can we not contemplate this story in truth,
piety and holiness?
Whatever of all this I consider, it is God I am
considering;
in all this he is my God.
I have said it is wise to meditate on these truths,
and
I have thought it right to recall the abundant
sweetness, given by the fruits of this priestly root;
and Mary, drawing abundantly from heaven, has
this sweetness to overflow for us.
