Friday, December 20, 2024 Is 7:10-14; Lk 1:26-38 Today’s Gospel highlights that Christmas is about reflecting Jesus, who resides in us. Though it is a passage on the Annunciation, Mary’s act that follows the narrative explains the intrinsic meaning of the text. When the angel leaves her, Mary rushes ‘in haste’ to meet with her […]
Thursday, December 19, 2024 Jgs 13:2-7,24-25; Lk 1:5-25 Today’s Gospel invites us to reexamine our faith in the light of Zechariah’s example. How often do we realize that faith (in God and humans) gives meaning to life? Here, I am reminded of a story. Due to some financial emergency, a daily laborer went up to
Tuesday, December 17, 2024 Gn 49: 2, 8-10; Mt 1:1-17 In today’s Gospel, we read the genealogy of Jesus Christ. What is the purpose of reading Jesus’ genealogy before Christmas? If we carefully read the genealogy, we find it has having incorporated the whole of the Old Testament history into the Gospel as the proximate
