3rd Sunday in Advent (Liturgical Year C)

December 3, 2010
Readings  Zephaniah 3:14-18  Isaiah 12:2-6  Philippians 4:4-7  Luke 3:10-18  Chants Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and a Saint, Giovanni Bellin, 1504 What Do We Do? The people in today’s Gospel are “filled with expectation.” They believe John the Baptist might be the Messiah they’ve been waiting for. Three times we hear their question: “What then should we…

3rd Sunday in Advent (Liturgical Year A)

December 3, 2010
Readings: Isaiah 35:1-6,10 Psalm 146:6-10 James 5:7-10  Matthew 11:2-11(see also ‘More Than a Prophet’)  Chants Scott Hahn with David Scott He knows that Jesus is doing “the works of the Messiah,” foretold in today’s First Reading and Psalm. But John wants his disciples—and us—to know that the Judge is at the gate, that in Jesus our God has come to save…

3rd Sunday in Advent (Liturgical Year B)

December 3, 2010
v Readings: Isaiah 61:1-2, 10-11  Luke 1:46-50, 53-54  1 Thessalonians 5:16-24  John 1:6-8, 19-28 Chants St John the Baptist (detail) Donatello, 1438 One Who is Coming The mysterious figure of John the Baptist, introduced in last week’s readings, comes into sharper focus today. Who he is, we see in this Sunday’s Gospel, is best understood by who he isn’t. He…

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Year ABC)

December 2, 2010
Readings Genesis 3:9-15, 20 Psalm 98:1-4 Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12 Luke 1:26-38 Chants Scott Hahn with David Scott In today’s Gospel, the angel Gabriel greets Mary in an unusual way: “Hail, favored one” (see Luke 1:28). Kecharitomene, the Greek word translated as “favored one,” is very rare, used in only one other place in the New Testament—in the text selected for…

2nd Sunday in Advent (Liturgical Year A)

December 2, 2010
Readings: Isaiah 11:1-10 Psalm 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17 Romans 15:4-9 Matthew 3:1-12 Chants Scott Hahn with David Scott “The kingdom of heaven is at hand,” John proclaims. And the Liturgy today paints us a vivid portrait of our new king and the shape of the kingdom He has come to bring. The Lord whom John prepares the way for in…

2nd Sunday in Advent (Liturgical Year C)

December 2, 2010
Readings  Baruch 5:1-9  Psalm 126:1-6  Philippians 1:4-6,8-11  Luke 3:1-6  Chants Virgin and Child with the Infant St. John the Baptist, Attended by Angels Fernando Llanos, 1514-16 The Road Home Today’s Psalm paints a dream-like scene—a road filled with liberated captives heading home to Zion (Jerusalem), mouths filled with laughter, tongues rejoicing. It’s a glorious picture from Israel’s past, a “new exodus,”…

2nd Sunday in Advent (Liturgical Year B)

December 2, 2010
Readings: Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11  Psalm 85:9-14  2 Peter 3:8-14  Mark 1:1-8  Chants Last Judgment (detail), Santa Maria Assunta, Torcello, Italy, 13th c. Straighten the Path Our God is coming. The time of exile—the long separation of humankind from God due to sin—is about to end. This is the good news proclaimed in this Sunday’s liturgy. Isaiah in the First Reading…

1st Sunday in Advent (Liturgical Year A)

December 1, 2010
Readings: Isaiah 2:1-5 Psalm 122:1-9 Romans 13:11-14 Matthew 24:37-44 (see also “The Gospel of Fulfillment”) Chants Scott Hahn with David Scott Jesus exaggerates in today’s Gospel when He claims not to know the day or the hour when He will come again. He occasionally makes such overstatements to drive home a point we might otherwise miss (see Matthew 5:34; 23:9; Luke 14:26). His point here…

1st Sunday in Advent (Liturgical Year B)

December 1, 2010
Readings: Isaiah 63:16-17, 19; 64:2–7 Psalm 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19  1 Corinthians 1:3-9  Mark 13:33-37  Chants Christ in Glory, Hunterian Psalter, England c. 1170 Straighten the Path The new Church year begins with a plea for God’s visitation. “Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,” the prophet Isaiah cries in Sunday’s First Reading. In Sunday’s Psalm, too, we…

33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Liturgical Year C)

September 2, 2010
Readings: Malachi 3:19-20  Psalm 98:5-9  2 Thessalonians 3:7-12  Luke 21:5-19  Chants Crucifix Coppo di Marcovaldo, 1261 Scott Hahn with David Scott It is the age between our Lord’s first coming and His last. We live in the new world begun by His life, death, Resurrection and Ascension, by the sending of His Spirit upon the Church. But we await the…

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