Today as we celebrate a New Year, we look to Mary, the servant of the Lord and the Mother of God. Mary was part of God’s eternal plan which comes to fulfillment in the fullness of time as Paul describes it in today’s second reading: “When the fullness of time had...
It all begins with God, and it will all end with God. This is the theme proclaimed in today’s Gospel from the Prologue to John’s Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” While everything begins and ends with God he...
Today’s Gospel is the “Canticle of Mary” also called the Magnificat (from the Latin “to magnify, to praise”). Mary gives praise and thanks to God for calling her to be the mother of Jesus, to be the mother of God. Mary has just come to visit her cousin Elizabeth who...
In today’s Gospel Luke tells us the story of the Annunciation of the birth not of Jesus but the Annunciation of the birth of John the Baptist. The angel appears to the priest Zechariah as he was serving his priestly ministry in the Jerusalem Temple. Luke describes...
In today’s Gospel Jesus’ authority is questioned and challenged. Jesus, a layman, has just performed a prophetic action in the Temple: “Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those engaged in selling and buying there. He overturned the tables of the money...
