First Reading Isaiah 7:10-14
Ahaz proclaims the sign that the Lord will give: a virgin shall give birth to a son, Emmanuel.
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 24:1-2,3-4,5-6
The Lord is the King of Glory who established the earth.
Second Reading Romans 1:1-7
Paul greets the community at Rome and declares himself a servant of Christ Jesus.
Gospel Reading
Matthew 1:18-24
Today is the fourth Sunday in Advent. Christmas will dawn in few days. Matthew’s story of the birth of Jesus centres on the person of Joseph. The mystery is so great that Joseph cannot understand what is happening. In his puzzlement, the Lord calls Joseph to a remarkable act of faith and obedience. Joseph, in wordless response to the word of God communicated by an angel, rose and ‘took his wife to his home’. A total and unquestioning acceptance of the word of God is Joseph’s first action in Matthew’s infancy story. St. Joseph shows us the value of grace under pressure. He always found himself in emergency situations during the brief period of his life on earth: having to accept a young wife who is pregnant before they are married, having to travel to faraway Bethlehem, having to flee as refugees into Egypt etc. He had to face a lot of pressure, a lot of crisis and a lot of emergency situations but God’s grace was sufficient for him. St. Bernard comments that God never gives us a challenge or a call or a duty without the sufficient grace to accomplish it. Joseph leads the way and shows us the quality of trust and commitment to the coming of God, which should mark the lives of each and every one of us this Christmas.
January 26 :
January 19 :
January 12 :
January 5 :
January 1 :
December 29 :
December 25 - Christmas Day: God had visited us
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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