New beginnings fill our lives—some long-awaited, some carefully
planned. Others emerge from the routine of ordinary
life like in today’s reading.

A look at the calendar tells Mary and Joseph that the time
has come for Mary’s purification and for Jesus’ presentation.
Mary and Joseph follow the requirements of Mosaic...

Gracious and loving God, open us to your renewing work in our lives. May we relax the clenched fists that hold tight to what is known and comfortable and open welcoming arms to new revelations that come at unexpected times. Amen.


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Leccionario Semanal
December 25–31, 2017
Resumen de la Escritura

Ecstasy over the Christmas miracle binds these passages together with unrestrained joy over what God has done and over who God is. The God whom these texts celebrate is a God who reigns in strength and whose activity on behalf of humankind is timelessly ancient. As worshipers, we join in rejoicing over the coming of the messenger “who says to Zion, ‘Your God reigns’” (Isa. 52:7). We also celebrate “the LORD, for he is coming to judge the earth . . . with righteousness, and . . . equity” (Ps. 98:9). Then a note of immediacy is struck by the focus on what God has done just now, in these “last days,” in which “he has spoken to us by a Son” (Heb. 1:2). The One who was present at Creation, the eternal Word, “became flesh and lived among us” (John 1:14).

Preguntas para la reflexión

• Read Isaiah 52:7-10. Where do you see signs of God’s peace amid the world’s brokenness?
• Read Psalm 98. Where in your life has a new beginning come most startlingly from an ending?
• Read Hebrews 1:1-12. When you next celebrate the sacrament of Holy Communion, re ect on how God has brought healing to your life.
• Read Luke 2:22-40. When have you been surprised by an inbreaking of God’s extraordinary love in an ordinary moment?

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