The Word was Made Flesh
Presence of God: O Jesus, eternal Word, permit me to penetrate more deeply into the sublime mystery of Your Incarnation, so that my heart may always be held captive by Your infinite love.
Meditation: The Word is the second Person of the Blessed Trinity. In the bosom of the one divine nature, there are three Persons, three subsistent 
relations. We too, are “subsistent”: “subsistence” is that which permits me to say “I” and to attribute to this “I” the various acts that I perform as a person. In God, in the divine nature, there are three relations who can say “I” in regard to the divine operations, operations which are common to all three, because they proceed from the one single nature, possessed by all and each one of the three divine Persons. The Word possesses the same divine nature as the Father and the Holy Spirit; He possesses the same attributes, such as infinity, eternity, omnipotence, omniscience- all the divine grandeur and perfections belong to the Word as well as to the other two Persons. The Word performs the same divine actions as the Father and the Holy Spirit: the intimate actions of knowledge and love which constitute the very life of the Blessed Trinity, and the external acts such as creation and preservation of creatures. The Word is God! St. John the Evangelist, in the beginning of his Gospel, before speaking of the temporal birth of Jesus, presents to us the eternal generation of the Word, existing ab eterno (from all eternity), in the bosom of the Father, equal to the Father in all things, but distinct from Him. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (Jn 1:1). The Word is the one utterance of the Father- He expresses the Father completely. The Father, in giving the Word His whole essence and divine nature, also communicates to Him all the divine activity. Thus the Word is the efficient cause, the first principle of all natural and supernatural life: “All things were made by Him, and without Him was made nothing that was made” (ibid. 1:3). But the Word, the splendor of the Father, is not only life; He is also light, the light which reveals the greatness and mystery of God to men: “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men” (ibid. 1:4). Natural life and the life of grace, light and knowledge of God- all come from the Word, who is God, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
Colloquy:
“O eternal Word! O my Savior! Thou art the divine eagle whom I love and who allurest me. Thou who, descending to this land of exile, didst will to suffer and to die, in order to bear away each single soul and plunge it into the very heart of the Blessed Trinity- Love’s eternal Home! Thou who, returning to Thy realm of light, dost still remain hidden here in our vale of tears under the appearance of the white Host, to nourish me with Thy own substance. Forgive me, O Jesus, if I tell Thee that Thy love reacheth even unto folly, and at the sight of such folly what wilt Thou but that my own heart should leap up to Thee? How could there by any limit to my trust?
“I know well that for Thy sake the saints have made themselves foolish–being “eagles” they have done great things. Too little for such mighty deeds, my folly lies in the hope that Thy love accepts me as a victim, and in my confidence that the angels and saints will help me to fly unto thee with Thy own wings, O my divine Eagle! As long as Thou willest I shall remain with my faze fixed upon Thee, for I long to be fascinated by Thy divine eyes, I long to become Love’s prey” (St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Story of a Soul, 13).
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Art for this post on The Word was Made Flesh: Incarnation of Jesus, Piero di Cosimo, circa 1505, PD-Worldwide, Wikimedia Commons; Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, mirror from open source material.
