“The Word Became Flesh and Made His Dwelling among Us”

“The Word Became Flesh and Made His Dwelling among Us”  

     Now that the Liturgical season of the Christmas is upon us. I wonder why God chose to save us by becoming Man. Celebrating the Christmas in the Philippines has given us the real essence of Incarnation, where we are together with our Formators, live a simple life through offering Christmas gift of presence and love to one another. I think the real meaning of Christmas is presence, as Christ is present among us is what exactly Incarnation means. Why God became like you and me.

      The word incarnation means “embodiment of God in the person of Christ.” From the Latin word, “incarnationem” w means “act of being made flesh” used by Church writers especially in reference to God in Christ.  It is necessary to know, to understand and be convinced that Jesus Christ became man to remind us that we are the beloved sons and daughters of God. In fact, the Incarnation means for us personally, that God became who we are. He became a human person like you and me to heal our wounded souls because as human beings, we have strengths and fragilities. Acknowledging our imperfections, weaknesses, and inconstant creatures; which bounded so much with limitations of time and space God chose to be like us. Therefore, the Son of God becoming Man is a special gift of love and generosity that God has for us. “The Word became flesh is to save and reconcile us with God who ‘loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins. “The Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world, and he was revealed to take away sins” (CCC 457).

         Who is God who became human? God is the fullness of all being and perfection. He is eternal, all-powerful, all-good and loving. He is also our creator, our first beginning and our last end. When Jesus Christ took on the flesh in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, human nature was changed. Since Christ united himself with humanity he raised up our dignity to a whole new level.

      Being a missionary, we are living like Christ among the poor. We do not distinguishing ourselves among them, because in them we see the incarnate God. We continue his mission on bringing people to God. Christ came down to be human, he builds a new unity between God and man and this is the act of God’s mercy. Fr. Ramon Zubieta our great founder an authentic disciple of Christ, being poor in the spirit in order to save the women and children in the Peruvian jungle. That is the true missionary is, living among the natives where they need us most. Forgetting oneself is to give life to others. The incarnation is not happening only in the past it continues in you and me.

                                                           By: Rosaria Aurea Ximenes