Dear Friends,
During my monthly retreat, I contemplated the mystery of the Incarnation, and these words of Jesus came through in my prayer: “I desire to wed you to myself, to unite myself to flesh.” The response of my heart? “Come, Lord Jesus!”
Come into my reality, my struggles, my sin, my hopes and desires and wed me to yourself. Graft me into you as a dying branch is grafted to the vine, so that your eternal life will pulse through me, for the sap of your divine life can make me new. (Jn 15)
Jesus grafts us to himself and pours out new life in his sacraments. He does not hold back any grace. We are the ones who build walls, who unwittingly cut ourselves off, hiding in shame, or strive to merit his love in willful pride.
The mystery of Christmas lies wide open before our eyes. Contemplate he who comes and welcome this mystery of Love who comes to save.
Will you let him wed you to himself a little more this Christmas?
“The Bridegroom came to the Bride.
He came to her when the Word was made flesh.
He united Himself to human nature in the womb of the Virgin,
and thus the wedding was celebrated:
when God was united to man
and man was taken up by God.
The bridal chamber was the virginal womb,
and the fruit of these nuptials is the salvation of the world.”
St. Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 185, 1
I pray that this Christmas is filled with his joy and peace!
Yours in the heart of Jesus,
Glory
