When something is important, we attach a lofty word to it. That is the case for us today; our theme is focused on the “incarnation” of Christ. The word is of Latin origin, confessing that the Son of God is “in the flesh”. A chief mystery of the Christian faith—the eternal God takes on human flesh and dwells among us.
How can this be? St. Augustine marveled at the incarnation in which the Creator of all things enters His creation, in which He enters a womb that He had formed. It transcends our minds, for God transcends our minds. Yet we confess the incarnation; we believe it; we rejoice in it for we receive unending blessings from it. God in human flesh brings all God’s blessings to humans. Chief among them is His grace. John speaks of the incarnation, saying that the Word became flesh. And then he reveals the divine purpose for it: “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).