How to incarnate Christ
20 December Luke 1:26-38 We have started this nine days novena that leads to the celebration of Christmas, not as opening of gifts, but fulfilling a prophesy that "Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert. The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs. In the haunts where jackals once lay, grass and reeds and papyrus will grow" (Is 35: 5 - 7). We were prepared so far as to start journeying into the world of integrity, solid faith, hope, and love. Now, the Holy Spirit dwelt on Mary, the Immaculate Conception, whose heart is pure before God and man, and whose obedience was absolute, "I am the maidservant of the Lord; let it be done to me as you said" (Lk. 1: 38). What does it take for us to incarnate Christ with such definitiveness? First, there is no spa