UNVIELING THE CHILD
JESUS’ STATUE AND INCENSING IT ON THE CHRISTMAS VIGIL MASS BY IKECHUKWU OGUN FR
The Eternal Priesthood
of Christ is commemorated with the incensing, his victimhood is reenacted, his
sacrifice and oblation nature is pronounced symbolically and his passion is easily
seen in the gesture of this liturgical act. The profound spirituality is very
clear that the aura declares and calls for deep meditation for this mystery of
Incarnation which was evident in the FIAT of Our Blessed Virgin Mother as
recorded in the Gospel of St Luke; Dixit
autem Maria: Ecce ancilla Domini, fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum – Then Mary
said, Behold I am the handmaid of the Lord be it done to me according to your
word Lk.1:38. Mary played the role of motherhood of the Divine Child whom
she naturally formed by her immaculate and innocent maternal blood in her womb.
The divine conception of Our Lord and God in a mystery of Verbum Incarnato came from the Et
Verbum Caro factum est, Et habitavit nobis, the silence of midnight or
vigil prayer is resounded with the liturgical break of the Gloria in Excelsis Deo. This ushers greatly the symbolic
God-is-with-us, his presence, his peace, his reign, his kingdom, his
forgiveness, his goodness, as was attested by John the Baptist: Venit fortior me post me, cuius non sum
dignum procumbens solver corigiam calceamentorum eius (Mt.3:11; Lk.3:16;
Jn.1:27) - Someone is coming soon who is greater
than I am--so much greater that I'm not even worthy to stoop down like a slave
and untie the straps of his sandals
Mk.1:7.
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