by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
Catholic TV Mass for Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time, Jan. 29, 2018, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image is file photo]
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“… The Octave of Christmas ends on the first day of the new year, which is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, venerated as the Mother of God. The Gospel reminds us that she ‘kept all these things, pondering them in her heart’ (Lk 2:19). So she did in Bethlehem, on Golgotha at the foot of the cross, and on the
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“… Monday, January 1, 2018 is the eighth day of Christmas. In the Christian tradition, the octave is considered as one long ‘day’ that lasts for eight days. Therefore, Monday, January 1, 2018 completes Christmas day; it is fulfilled. …”
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Catholic TV Mass for for the Octave Day of Christmas, the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God Jan. 1, 2018, from Arletto Abbey in the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image adapted from image at Creative Commons Wikimedia Commons Pjposullivan, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loretto_Abbey_chapel_interior,_Toronto.JPG, with additional conditions stated at that link and in the alt-tag
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“… She sees that the Son of God is given to her; she is thrilled to see the salvation of the world is entrusted to her. She hears the Lord tell her deep down in her heart: ‘I have chosen you amongst everything I have created; I blessed you among all women’ (Lk 1:42); I gave my Son into your
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Catholic TV Mass for the Octave Day of Christmas, the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God Jan. 1, 2018, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image is file photo]
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“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. … All things came to be through Him … … What came to be through Him was Life, and this Life was the Light of the human race; the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. …”
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“When the angels went away from them to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let us go, then, to Bethlehem ….” So they went in haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger. When they saw this, they made known the message that had been told them about this Child. All who heard it
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“… Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the city of David that is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with Child. While they were there, the time came for her to have her Child, and she gave
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