November 30, 2025: What’s the Big Deal About Incarnation?

Galatians 4:4-6, John 1:1-5, 14

God became flesh and lived among us. We hear that every Christmas season but often don’t understand the earth-shattering implications it has on this world and in our lives. By becoming part of our physical world, God redeems the physical. The body of God was nurtured in the womb of a human woman. Humanity and divinity became one, both in Jesus and in us. Richard Rohr wrote, “Incarnation meant not just that God became Jesus, but that God said yes to the material universe and physicality itself.” In other words, matter matters.

Reflection Questions: How might you honor your body in light of the Incarnation? What does it mean to you that “God said yes to the material universe”? How is your understanding of creation, other humans, and yourself impacted by God’s Incarnation?