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Por favor, lean este pasaje antes.  Mis hermanas y hermanos   Hoy celebramos la solemnidad de la Epifanía.  EL recién nacido Rey de Israel se anuncia y los magos han venido para visitarle.  Había en Jerusalén otro rey que era impostor … Continued

Please read this passage before reading this homily. John’s community seems to have been one well established.  There were some old-timers, some recent converts, and some young adults.  He called them fathers, children, and young men. In todays’s reading it … Continued

Please read this passage before reading the homily. God is righteous.  A Biblical person hearing this would agree because righteousness is based on right relationships.  The righteous God will judge rightly and those who judge rightly show that they, like … Continued

Please read this passage before reading the homily. What’s new?  It is a new year, but what is new?  Shepherds are amazed, but perhaps they have always been amazing.  They went in haste to Bethlehem as Mary had gone in … Continued

My sisters and brothers, God sent an angel from heaven to earth to a small town in Galilee to a young woman named Mary.  There are many places in the universe but only to earth did God send the angel.  … Continued

Por favor, lean este pasaje antes.  Mis hermanas y hermanos Dios mandó a su ángel del cielo a la tierra a un poblado en Galilea a la virgen que se llamaba María.  Hay muchos lugares en el universo, pero sólo … Continued

Please read this passage before reading the homily. How do we know Jesus?  It is not enough to say, “I love God” and, “I love Jesus.”  A person could have memorized the whole Bible word for word and still not … Continued

Please read this passage before reading the homily. What was from the beginning?  What have we heard?  What have we seen with our own eyes?  What have we looked upon and touched with our hands?  If you have answered, “the … Continued

Please read this passage before reading the homily. This birth of Jesus did not suddenly happen, nor did it happen in a vacuum, nor was it an isolated event.  It was something for which we were prepared, it happened in … Continued

Please read the Scripture passage before the commentary. My sisters and brothers, God sent an angel from heaven to earth to a small town in Galilee to a young woman named Mary.  There are many places in the universe but … Continued