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The Incarnation
 


Jesus accepted to dwell among us, sharing our daily difficulties; he did not hesitate to bear with us the burden of existence with its effort and anxiety. He was born for us in order to stay with us and to offer to each one who opens to him the door of his or her heart the gift of his joy, his peace, his love.

 
Address
'Gift of Mary' Home
Vatican City
4 January 2008

 
 
 
The Incarnation
 


God has done everything; he has done the impossible: he was made flesh. His all-powerful love has accomplished something which surpasses all human understanding: the Infinite has become a child, has entered the human family. And yet, this same God cannot enter my heart unless I open the door to him.

 
URBI ET ORBI MESSAGE
Christmas 2012

 
 
 
The Incarnation
 


The glory of God is not expressed in the triumph and power of a king, it does not shine out in a famous city or a sumptuous palace, but makes its abode in a virgin’s womb and is revealed in the poverty of a child. In our lives too, the almightiness of God acts with the force — often in silence — of truth and love. Thus faith tells us that in the end the defenseless power of that Child triumphs over the clamor of worldly powers.

 
General Audience
Paul VI Audience Hall

19 December 2012

 
 
 
The Incarnation
 


The Savior comes to reduce to powerlessness the work of evil and all that can still keep us distant from God...With his coming among us, God points out and assigns to us a task: precisely that of being like him and of striving for true life, to attain the vision of God in the Face of Christ.

 
General Audience
Paul VI Audience Hall
22 December 2010

 
 
 
The Incarnation
 


In the present crisis affecting not only the economy but also many sectors of society, the Incarnation of the Son of God speaks to us of how important man is to God, and God to man. Without God, man ultimately chooses selfishness over solidarity and love, material things over values, having over being. We must return to God, so that man may return to being man. With God, even in difficult times or moments of crisis, there is always a horizon of hope: the Incarnation tells us that we are never alone, that God has come to humanity and that He accompanies us.

 
Shrine of Loreto
Loreto, Italy
4 October 2012

 
 
 
The Incarnation
 


This is the joy that God gives us: that he made himself one of us, that we can touch him and that he dwells among us.

 
Homily
Our Lady Star of Evangelization Parish
Rome
10 December 2006

 
 
 
The Incarnation
 


Proclaiming that "God comes" is equivalent, therefore, to simply announcing God himself, through one of his essential and qualifying features: his being the God-who-comes.

 
Vespers
First Sunday of Advent
Vatican Basilica
2 December 2006

 
 
 
The Incarnation
 


The archetype for that coming of Christ, which we might call a "spiritual incarnation", is always Mary. Just as the Virgin Mother pondered in her heart on the Word made flesh, so every individual soul and the entire Church are called during their earthly pilgrimage to wait for Christ who comes and to welcome him with faith and love ever new.

 
Vespers
First Sunday of Advent
Vatican Basilica
2 December 2006

 

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