Consideration for the 2nd day
The Eternal Word is about to take on his created nature in the holy house of Nazareth, where Mary and Joseph dwelled. When the divine secret came to overshadow her, Mary was alone and engulfed in prayer. She spent the silent hours of the night in the closest union with God and while she prayed, the Word took possession of His created dwelling.
However, He did not arrive without consulting her opinion. Before making himself present He sent a messenger, the Archangel St. Gabriel, to ask Mary, on behalf of God, for her consent to the incarnation. The Creator did not want to carry-out this great mystery without the acquiescence of His creature.
That moment was very solemn; Mary was free to refuse. With what adorable delights, and with what ineffable enjoyment the Holy Trinity would have awaited for Mary to part her lips and pronounce the fiat that must have been a melody to their ears, and which confirmed her profound obedience to the omnipotent divine will.
The Immaculate Virgin has given her consent. The Archangel has disappeared; God has re-clothed Himself with a created nature; the eternal will has been fulfilled and creation completed.
In the regions of the angelic world bursts an immense jubilation, but the Virgin Mary neither heard nor would have paid attention to it. Her head was bowed; her soul was submerged in a silence similar to that of God’s: The Word had been made flesh, and although still invisible to the world, He already dwelled among men, for whom His immense love had come to rescue.
He was no longer just the Eternal Word He was the Child Jesus re-clothed with humanity and already justifying the praises that all generations have given Him – the fairest of the sons of men.