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Mary’s prominent place in the Gospel story leads us to believe that from its earliest days the Church recognized how Mary continued to glorify God in all she did.
Whatever the historical facts behind today’s Gospel story, the message of faith is that God is reaching out to us, communicating to us the Word Made Flesh.
Our Christmas giving is meant to symbolize God’s generosity to us. As we give our gifts–large or small–let’s be grateful that the Father gave us the greatest gift of all.
Mary and Joseph are models for us of patient expectation and openness to God. Today’s Gospel might suggest that we do the same.
We twenty-first century Christians are so often caught up in our contemporary reality, that we can forget that God has intervened in our history.
With the Holy Spirit’s help we can take a message of joy and hope in Jesus Christ to a world that needs to hear it.
The start of the Advent season usually finds me with a “divided spirit.”
