Today's memorial celebrates
the crowning of Mary as Queen of Heaven
Our first reading today comes from the prophet Isaiah and is commonly heard coming up to Christmas. In the text the prophet tells us about the Son who will be given to us and will bring us salvation through his self-sacrifice. The Gospel text is St Luke’s account of the Annunciation in which we hear how the Son spoken of in the first reading will be born. As always, the readings on memorials and feast days of Our Lady remind us of her great service to the word and will of God.
Readings: Isaiah 9:1-6;
Psalm 112; Luke 1:26-38
Visible Expression
The ecclesial community, while always having a universal dimension, finds its most immediate and visible expression in the parish. It is there that the Church is seen locally. In a certain sense it is...
"... the Church living in the midst of the homes of her sons and daughters..."
Pope John Paul II
Christifideles Laici [27]
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