First Reading Isaiah 9:1-6
To those in darkness, a child will be born who will have dominion over the earth.
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 96:1-2,2-3,11-12,13
Sing a new song to the Lord.
Second Reading Titus 2:11-14
God has appeared, bringing salvation to all.
Gospel Reading
Luke 2:1-14
Today we celebrate Christmas, the mystery of Incarnation, God becoming man, the astonishing entrance that God made into our broken world. Again and again the beauty of this Gospel astonishes us that God makes himself a child so that we may love him, so that we may dare to love him, and as a child trustingly lets himself be taken into our arms. It is as if God were saying: I know that my glory frightens you, and that you are trying to assert yourself in the face of my grandeur. So now I am coming to you as a child, so that you can accept me and love me. God is born for us but the question is whether we are ready to welcome him. The most unfortunate and the saddest sentence is found in the Gospel of Luke: “There was no place for them in the Inn” (Lk 2:7). Centuries have passed but this stark reality still continues in our lives. God wants to come in but we keep our doors closed. Why should we not also be moved by curiosity to see more closely and to know what God has said to us? At this hour, let us ask him to touch our hearts with the holy curiosity and the holy joy of the shepherds, and thus let us go over joyfully to Bethlehem, to the Lord who today once more comes to meet us. Amen
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December 29 :
December 22 - Fourth Sunday in Advent: Joseph, the just man
December 15 - Third Sunday of Advent: Rejoice
December 8 - Second Sunday in Advent : A voice crying in the wilderness
December 1 - First Sunday in Advent : Be awake and be Prepared
November 24 - Solemnity of Christ the King : " Thy kingdom come!"
November 17 - Thirty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time: Jesus left the Temple and departed from it
November 10 – Thirty second Sunday in Ordinary Time : Heaven is our Home
November 3 – Thirty First Sunday in Ordinary Time : Zacchaeus’Transformation
October 27 : Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time - The Prayer of the Humble Man
October 20 - Twenty Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time : Persistent Widow
October 13 – Twenty Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time : Give thanks with a grateful heart
October 6 : 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Faith as a mustered seed
September 29 – Twenty Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time : Who is the Lazarus in my life?
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