From this day all generations will call me blessed.

4TH WEEK OF ADVENT From this day all generations will call me blessed.  Imagine how Mary felt when the angel invited her to be mother of the Messiah! It would have been like a dream come true for a young Hebrew woman. What a privilege to cradle the Promised One in...

Your voice is sweet, and you are lovely

4TH WEEK OF ADVENT Your voice is sweet, and you are lovely. Does this passage make you feel as if you’ve stumbled into the middle of a romance novel? The Song of Songs is, in fact, a series of love poems. It doesn’t even mention God by name one time! So you wouldn’t...

You will conceive in your womb and bear a son.

4TH WEEK OF ADVENT You will conceive in your womb and bear a son. It was a day probably like any other day, more than two thousand years ago, when an angel appeared to Mary and announced the coming of the Messiah. The people of God had been waiting a very long time,...

You will have joy and gladness.

4TH WEEK OF ADVENT You will have joy and gladness.  Zechariah had spent so many years praying for a child that he had become accustomed to God’s silence. It’s no wonder, then, that he was terrified when God finally answered! And what a set of questions this answer...

Of her was born Jesus who is called the Christ.

3RD WEEK OF ADVENT Of her was born Jesus who is called the Christ.  In the Old Testament, a genealogy was normally traced through the male members of a family. Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus in today’s Gospel is no exception. But along with all the men from Abraham to...

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