Theme 1: Word became flesh

 

Prayer

God Most High,
whose eternal Word chose a dwelling among us,
that we might live in your presence:
grant us a spirit of wisdom
to know how rich is the glory you have given us,
and how great is the hope to which we are called
in the Word made flesh;
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God for ever and ever.  
Amen.

Reflection

John 1

In the beginning was the Word, 

and the Word was with God, 

and the Word was God. 

He was in the beginning with God. 

All things came into being through him, 

and without him not one thing came into being. 

What has come into being in him was life, 

and the life was the light of all people. 

The light shines in the darkness, 

and the darkness did not overcome it.

He was in the world, 

and the world came into being through him;

 yet the world did not know him. 

He came to what was his own, 

and his own people did not accept him. 

But to all who received him, 

who believed in his name, 

he gave power to become children of God, 

who were born, 

not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, 

but of God.

And the Word became flesh and lived among us, 

and we have seen his glory,

the glory as of a father’s only son, 

full of grace and truth. 

From his fullness we have all received, 

grace upon grace. 

Meditation

John 1:15

And the Word became flesh