Isaiah 66:10-13 Please listen with me to a reading from the 66th chapter of the Prophet Isaiah, beginning at the 10th verse, which was the versicle in today’s Psalmody: “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you who love her; rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn for her; that you…
Sexagesima – Isaiah 55:10-13 “The pen is mightier than the sword.” This familiar axiom reminds us that the power of words – both written and spoken – can be and is greater, and more enduring, than the power of force and violence. External threats and coercive pressure can change people’s bodily actions, and make them…
Isaiah 40:1-11 There is something inside every human being that gives him or her an innate desire to live, and to avoid death for as long as possible. Indeed, the quest for immortality is one of the recurring themes of the human imagination. It is reflected in history. In the sixteenth century, Ponce de Leon…
Isaiah 2:1-5 Please listen with me to these words from the second chapter of the Prophet Isaiah, beginning at the first verse: The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be…
Luke 2:8-14; Isaiah 9:2-7 EXORDIUM: Christ is born! Let us glorify him! Today is the festival of the Nativity of Our Lord. It recalls the day in Bethlehem, so many centuries ago, when God’s Son entered into this world, and set out on his life’s journey as humanity’s Savior. God’s Son had, of course, been…
Isaiah 1:2-3 “Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth! For the Lord has spoken: ‘I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against Me; the ox knows its owner and the donkey its master’s crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.’” In the name of Jesus. Amen.…