THE GOSPEL
Luke 1:26-38But she was greatly troubled at what was said
and pondered what sort of greeting this might be.
Angel and maiden:
their eyes
met.
Unnerved!
They were unnerved!
Both.
She saw heaven in his face,
he saw earth in
hers.
“Yes.”
She said it for all of us.
Yes.
Let us say it,
every year after year,
summer, fall, winter and spring,
every ordinary minute of every ordinary day.
THE FIRST READING
2 Samuel 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16And when your time comes and you rest with your ancestors,
I will raise up your heir after you, sprung from your loins,
and I will make his kingdom firm.
Love gives.
Love makes promises.
David desired to build God a house.
But God had begun to build, for David, a kingdom
and would bring it to fullness with a Divine Descendant.
O God,
Your response to our drop-of-water love
is to roll out an ocean
at our feet.
THE SECOND READING
Romans 16:25-27
To him … be glory forever and ever
our Father,
in Christ
you made known
your eternal plan to all nations.
You uncovered the mystery.
You spoke the
secret.
The Word made flesh.
Glory to God in the highest.
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