What have I to do with these sublime truths? Everything, for He was
incarnate _for me_. What does it mean? It means that He is my Brother
and that He is giving to God what God must have, but what I cannot give
Him; and that all I have to do is to unite myself to Him and to offer my
imperfect acts of adoration, love, humility with His perfect ones. He
has given Himself to me, that I may give Him back to God--a perfect
offering with which God will be entirely satisfied. My God, I cannot
adore Thee as I should, though I desire to do so with my whole heart,
but JESUS is there incarnate for me, He is adoring Thee perfectly for
me, accept His adoration and mine with it. My God, I love Thee, but I
cannot love Thee enough, I cannot love Thee as I ought, I cannot love
Thee as Thou deservest to be loved, but JESUS is incarnate for me, He
has a human Heart which is loving Thee _perfectly_; I put my heart
inside His, accept His love and mine with it. My God, I want to be
perfectly submissive, perfectly humble, a perfect victim, but great
though my desires are, I cannot arrive at the perfection which Thou dost
require. Oh, look upon my Brother incarnate for me, accept all His
perfections; let me offer my little struggles and desires and efforts
with all that He is doing, for is it not all for me? "_Through_ Him and
_with_ Him and _in_ Him."
Let me go to Nazareth to Mary; she will welcome me for she knows that He
has become incarnate _for me_. The Angel has just left her to take back
her _Fiat_ to Heaven. I will take his place and on bended knees before
that holy shrine where the new Life has just begun, I will meditate.
Never before perhaps have I so felt the need of thanksgiving, of
adoration, of wonder, of love. All I offer now and from henceforth must
pass through Mary to her Son, Who will offer my gifts with His own to
His Father.
_Colloquy_ with God-Incarnate.
_Resolution._ To thank God often to-day for the Incarnation.
_Spiritual Bouquet._ "He was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin
Mary and was made Man."
"EX MARIA VIRGINE"
"Apud me est fons vitae." [In me is the Source of life.]
_1st. Prelude._ Mary, just after the Angel had departed from her.
_2nd. Prelude._ Grace to understand Mary's part in the Incarnation.