God’s plan of salvation is fully revealed in Jesus Christ and realized by the power of the Holy Spirit. In the mystery of the Incarnation, God’s plan of salvation comes to its fullness. In Christ, God’s love is fully revealed. In reflecting on the sublime dignity of sonship which the Incarnation has conferred on us and the reality of God’s fatherhood as revealed in Christ, Pope John Paul II said:

He it was, and he alone, who satisfied the Father’s eternal love, that fatherhood that from the beginning found expression in creating the world, giving man all the riches of creation, and making him ‘little less than God’ in that he was created ‘in the image and after the likeness of God’. He and he alone also satisfied that fatherhood of God and that love which man in a way rejected by breaking the first covenant and the later covenants that God ‘again and again offered to man.

Jesus is the one who is sent to save the world (Jn 3:16; Jn. 10:10, Mk 1:15; Lk. 13). The Lord himself bore witness to this when he said: “I must proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom of God for that is what I was sent to do” (Lk. 4:43) The prophet Isaiah had long ago prophesied the same: “The Spirit of the Lord has been given to me, for he has anointed me. He has sent me to bring the Good News to the poor” (Is. 61:1; Lk. 4:18). Jesus himself, the Good News of God was the very first and the greatest evangelizer to the point of the sacrifice of his life (cf. Ev. Nun. No. 7).