In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.

I adore you with profound reverence. I ask your pardon for my sins, and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My Immaculate Mother, St. Joseph, my Father and Lord,

my guardian angel, intercede for me.

As we begin the season of Advent,

I would like to propose for your consideration

four short meditations, one for each week of Advent as we approach

the birth of our Lord, Christmas, so that we can improve our prayer. And I want to take, as a starting point homily of Saint-Hose-Maria in Christ

this passing by called the Christian vocation to help us go through Advent, as this homily is one that he preached during Advent.

When we think of Christmas and the preparation that leads up to Christmas, we think perhaps

of our youth because so many memories of maybe the manger scene or the Christmas tree or family coming from all over the country

coming to celebrate this great solemnity of the coming of our Lord.

And we think of stories that we tell during Christmas,

a story, primarily the story of the incarnation, the story of how Jesus who, or the word, I should say, who is eternal, eternally begotten of the Father,

has entered into history, into our own story, and become part of our own lives,

and has influenced us in every little detail of our existence, primarily because he has assumed our human nature completely.

He took on our body, he has assumed our human nature completely.

He took on our body.

He has a human soul.

And the person of the word has assumed this human nature in his divinity.

And so when we think of Jesus, we think of his two natures. One is divine,

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