Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year C

St. Luke 1:39-45: "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb".

“See how new and how wonderful this mystery is. He has not yet left the womb but he speaks by leaping; he is not yet allowed to cry out but he makes himself heard by his actions; he has not yet seen the light but he points out the Sun; he has not yet been born but he is keen to act as precursor. The Lord is present, so he cannot contain himself or let nature run its course: He wants to break out of the prison of his mother’s womb and he makes sure he witnesses to the fact that the Saviour is about to come” (St. John Chrysostom).  

Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B

Genesis 2.7,15,18-24: "So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, 'This at last is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.'"

"The marriage covenant, by which a man and a woman form with each other an intimate communion of life and love, has been founded and endowed with its own special laws by the Creator. By its very nature it is ordered to the good of the couple, as well as to the generation and education of children" (CCC 1660).

Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

St. Mark 7.31-37: "They brought to him a man who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hands on him...Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, "Ephphatha", that is, "Be opened". And immediately the man's eyes were opened, his tongue was released and he could speak plainly."

Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

St. Mark 7.1-8,14-15,21-23: "There is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile them, but the things that come out of a person are what defile them".

Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

St. John 6.53,60-69: "The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life". Simon Peter answered him, "Lord to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life".

"Hold back nothing of yourself for yourself from Jesus. Give your all to him, who gave his all for you" (St. Francis of Assisi).

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

St. John 6.51-58: "Very truly I tell you whoever eats eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in them".

"I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament. There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth and more than that...God" (J. R. R. Tolkien)

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

St. John 6. 41-51: Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them".

In Holy Communion we die to sin and he gives us grace, we die to our own wills and receive the divine will, we humbly give him our stony hearts and have them returned to us softened and natural, we give him our humanity and he gives us his divinity. We commune with Christ's death and receive his life.