Incarnation

We've been reading and discussing Dom Helder Camara (1909-1999) during the support group for spiritual formation at the Abbey of Gethsemani.  Dom Camara was the archbishop of Recife, Brazil and one of this centuries great peace and justice ministers.  When I read a particular paragraph from his writings, my thoughts we're, "Yes, this is what incarnation means in our day."  Dom Camara wrote, "Here in Brazil I meet missionaries from almost every country in the world: priests, religious, members of the laity.  They come to us in the spirit of incarnation.  They assume our culture, they speak our language.  They merge so thoroughly with our people, they become our brothers and sisters.  They take on all our own problems.  Not to solve them, but to encourage us to do so.  Through them, through all of us together, the incarnation goes on, and so does the redemption." (MODERN SPIRITUAL MASTERS, ed. Robert Ellsberg, page 126.)