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Today in the podcast, the Humanity of Jesus. Father Peter Armenio, a priest of Opus Day, invites us to reflect on why God is called the Word,

and why the humanity of Jesus Christ is such a unique and shocking truth of Christianity.

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, and to seed for me.

Our conversation with Jesus is basically an extension of the first meditation, which is that we are

children of God. But officially, the topic is the humanity of Jesus. Now, the humanity of Jesus, the entire gospel, we're going to just pray about these revolutionary words of St. John's Gospel.

His first few verses of his gospel is dramatically different than anything else in the entire Bible.

In fact, it's rather startling we're used to because we're Christian.

But what's startling, first of all, is that our one God is more than one person.

And that's the first revelation, that God the Father is not the only person who is one God.

Don't try to understand it.

If my meditation has led you to understand this, I'm in big trouble.

You're not supposed to understand it.

So please don't understand this.

In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God. All right. So you have God and a word. And the word was God.

That's different.

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