Comments on the Festive Readings

Readings: Is 62:1-5; 1 Cor 12:4-11; Jn 2:1-12 TO GOD, OUR BRIDEGROOM What mystery of Love is this, Lord? You,…

Readings: Is 40:1-5.9-11; Titus 2:11-14; 3:4-7; Luke 3:15-16.21-22 THE GOD WHO RANKS AMONG SINNERS Lord Jesus,…

Readings: Is 60:1-6; Ps 71; Eph 3:2-3. 5-6; Mt 2:1-12 “When Jesus is born some Magi appear who came from the east.…

Readings: Sir 24:1-4.12-16; Eph 1:3-6.15-18; Jn 1:1-18 The Prologue of John's Gospel, which the Liturgy offers us…

Readings: Nm 6:22-27; Gal 4:4-7; Lk 2:16-21 The Church makes us inaugurate the year by contemplating Mary, Mother…

Readings: 1 Sam 1:20-22.24-28; 1 Jn 3:1-2.21-24; Lk 2:41-52 The characteristics of the family described in the Old…

Readings: Is 9:1-6; Tit 2:11-14; Lk 2:1-14 In Luke's Gospel, while the birth of John the Baptist is narrated in…

Readings: Mi 5:1-4a; Heb 10:5-10; Lk 2:39-45 “Where will the Messiah be born?” all Israel wondered. The answer is…

Readings: Zeph 3:14-17; Phil 4:4-7; Lk 3:10-18 Luke, in accordance with the other synoptics, and John, opens the…

Gen 3:9-15,20; Phil 1:4-6,8-11; Lk 1:26-38 Monsignor Tonino Bello wrote: “I am sometimes concerned because in…