Week 1
Sunday: ” Scribes and Pharisees declared that they were awaiting the promised Messiah, the Desired of the Nations and Him whom Jacob called ” the Desire of the Eternal Hills”. Some ancient Fathers explain these words by saying that they describe the desire of the angels for the Incarnation; others hold that we should understand by them the desire that God had from all eternity to unite our human nature with the divine, a desire that He communicated to both angels and men, though in different ways.”(Dec 13, 1620)
Monday
“Patriarchs and Prophets longed ardently for Him and by this longing raised to heaven they petitioned for the Incarnation of the Son of God.” (Dec. 13, 1620)
Tuesday
“Solomon in the Canticle of Canticles expresses this longing in the words of the spouse “ Let Him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth. What does this kiss signify but hypostatic union of the human nature with the divine?”(Dec. 13, 1620)
Wednesday
“In the Incarnation He has made us see that which otherwise the human mind could hardly have imagined or understood, that is, that God was man and man God: the immortal, mortal, the one incapable of suffering, suffering.” (Dec 24, 1620)
Thursday
Manna is a figure of the Incarnation of the Word.It also prefigured the Eucharist. In the Incarnation we see the incarnate God in His own Person, and in the Eucharist we see Him under a more hidden and obscure form.”(Dec 24, 1620)
Friday
The Incarnation was the work of the most Holy Trinity. (Dec 24, 1620)
Saturday
The Incarnation is the miracle of miracles (Jan 1621)
We continue our Advent series with thoughts by St. Francis de Sales on the Incarnation, from his sermons. This week we focus on Blessed Mother and her unique role in the Incarnation of her Son.
Sunday “At the moment the glorious Virgin gave her consent,the Holy Spirit formed the Savior’s body,and at the same time, His most holy soul came to animate it.(St Francis de Sales Sermon, Dec 24, 1620)
Monday
The loving sighs of Our Lady advanced the Incarnation of Our Lord, according to the ancient Doctors.(Jan 1621)St Francis de Sales
Tuesday
In His eternity He had foreseen that the Holy Virgin would implore Him to hasten the moment of His coming into the world and that He would hearken to her prayer.(Jan 1621)St Francis de Sales
Wednesday
The Fathers considering this word of the Song of Songs , “Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth,” say that this kiss is nothing else but the accomplishment of the Mystery of the Lords Incarnation. This kiss was granted to Our Lady who merits the name of spouse par excellence.(Mar 25 1621) St Francis de Sales
Thursday
The divine union of the Eternal Word with human nature was made in the sacred womb of our glorious Virgin.( Mar 25 1621) St Francis de Sales
Friday
Our most glorious Mother practiced these two virtues, charity and humility, in a sovereign degree at the time of the Incarnation. (Jul 1621) St Francis de Sales
Saturday
When Blessed Mother said, “let it be done to me you say,” at that ,moment the divine Word took flesh in her virginal womb and she became the Mother of God. (Jul 1621 )St Francis de Sales