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 caused this sweetness to overflow for us.
Source: The Liturgy of the Hours – Office of
Readings
From a Sermon by Saint Bernard
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taken from Wikimedia
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