“…And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us.

I wonder if many would get curious about this line in the Angelus, where Christ, the God-Word made
flesh. We can read in the first chapter and first verse of the Gospel of John that, “In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” How can it be? Well, we now put it as
part of the Mystery of God.

In our discussion on Salvation History, there are three elements of the Incarnation, namely: the Divinity,
the Humanity, and the Union of both the Divinity and Humanity of Christ. Christ, as Fr. Bernard Cooke
would say, is the fullness of the revelation of the nature of God, the dignity of the role of man, and
Himself as the mediator between God and man. Through Jesus, everything was created. Through Him,
everything about God was known. And through Him, salvation has been made for us.

Things about Jesus have been written in the scriptures. Christ who is the Light of Israel has led the
people towards God through his teachings. Christ revealed the abiding presence of the Father as he fed
the multitude of people, he provided wine in Cana, as he healed the sick, and as he offered his Body and
Blood to be the food of Life for us. Christ revealed the power of God through His miracles, and by this,
has shown himself as the Mediator. Christ is the Mediator, as he would say, “I am the Way, the Truth,
and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me (cf. Jn. 14:6).” He established his Church so
that all might be saved and be part of the Kingdom of God. He was foretold by the Prophets, from
Abraham to John- his precursor. Christ identified himself as the One who came not to abolish the Law
but to fulfill—similar to Moses who brought the Law from God to the people, and the Light that leads
the people away from darkness. Christ is the Wisdom, the truth with which we are conformed to go.
Christ is the Lord of Hosts, as the angels sing in adoration. Christ is the New David, a renewed David
who conquered not just Goliath but death itself. Christ is the great prophet, as represented by Elijah
during the Transfiguration. All of these were evident in the life of Christ, as written in the Gospels. But
whenever Christ proclaims all of these, the people would ask how come he acquired such knowledge,
and isn’t he just a son of a carpenter? Even the High Priests were terrified upon hearing these things
from Him, for they had expected that the new David would be as mighty as King David—a mighty king
who is willing to go to war to save Israel from the hands of the enemies. Jesus saved Israel not by killing
the enemies of war, but by killing the enemy that penetrated after the fall of man, through his death.
Jesus’ death was the end of death itself, and His Resurrection has given us new life.

My realization on this article is that even until now, Christ manifests himself in everything that we can
see, most especially in the people that we encounter every day. (insert god’s way of separating the
sheep.)