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Behold His Love

So much did God love human beings…that his Majesty took on the image and likeness of a sinner. Since he knew that all things love their equal, and since he so desired that we love him, he did not spare himself the effort of becoming like us so that we would love him. Oh, what a great gift! Oh, what design! Oh, the beauty of divine Love! How poorly we respond to you!… 

What more can God do in order to lovingly solicit our friendship? Thus says this same Lord when speaking of his vineyard: What could I have done for you that I did not do? (Is 5:4)….

If the being of God, infinite, immaterial, invisible, exceeds the power of our primitive understanding, we cannot know how to meditate appropriately on the infinite perfections of his immutable, immense, and unchanging being. However, [it’s far easier] to reflect on the holy humanity of Christ, on his passion and incarnation, and to acknowledge all that we owe him…. 

Let us make an act of love and thanksgiving, as we say: “Blessed are you, Lord, who for love of us became human. And blessed is the womb of Our Lady, in which you became flesh.”

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz