A. Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (Option 1)
God sent his Son, born of a woman,
to enable us to become God's children.
Through the Spirit of the Son we can cry out to God:
"Father, my Father!"
May Jesus, this Son, be always with you.
R/ And also with you.
Jan 1: Liturgical Prayers
Greeting
January 1: Mary, Mother of God - 2: Tony and Jude
From Frs. Tony Kadavil and Jude Botelho:
Synopsis of Mary Mother of God Sunday (Jan 1) & New
Year's message
Introduction: Since we celebrate the Feast
of Mary, the Mother of God on New Year’s Day, may I take this opportunity
to wish you all a Happy and Peaceful New Year? I pray that the Lord Jesus
and His mother Mary may enrich your lives during the New Year with an
abundance of God’s blessings. Today’s Feast of Mary, the Mother of God
is a very appropriate way to begin a new year, reminding us to rely on the
powerful intercession of our Heavenly Mother. The Church observes this day also
as the World Day of Peace and invites us to pray specially for lasting
peace in the world throughout the New Year.
MOTHER - Illustrations
No man is poor who has had a godly mother.
Abraham Lincoln.
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
Spanish proverb.
When Robert Ingersoll, the notorious skeptic, was in his heyday, two college students went to hear him lecture. As they walked down the street after the lecture, one said to the other, “Well, I guess he knocked the props out from under Christianity, didn’t he?” The other said, “No, I don’t think he did. Ingersoll did not explain my mother’s life, and until he can explain my mother’s life I will stand by my mother’s God.”
James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited, Tyndale, 1972, p. 381.
Abraham Lincoln.
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
Spanish proverb.
When Robert Ingersoll, the notorious skeptic, was in his heyday, two college students went to hear him lecture. As they walked down the street after the lecture, one said to the other, “Well, I guess he knocked the props out from under Christianity, didn’t he?” The other said, “No, I don’t think he did. Ingersoll did not explain my mother’s life, and until he can explain my mother’s life I will stand by my mother’s God.”
James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited, Tyndale, 1972, p. 381.
NEW YEAR - Illustrations
Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth
Proverbs 27:1.
Come now, ye that say, today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain; whereas ye know not what shall be on the next day. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away
James 4:13-14.
Proverbs 27:1.
Come now, ye that say, today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain; whereas ye know not what shall be on the next day. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away
James 4:13-14.
Christmas - liturgical Prayers
Greeting (See Second Reading)
In our own time God has spoken to us
through his own Son,
the radiant light of God's glory
through whom he made everything.
May this Son, Jesus the Lord, be with you.
R/ And also with you.
In our own time God has spoken to us
through his own Son,
the radiant light of God's glory
through whom he made everything.
May this Son, Jesus the Lord, be with you.
R/ And also with you.
Christmas - Midnight, Dawn & Day - Fr. Tony Kadavil
Christmas: (Lk 2:1-14): Why do we celebrate Christmas with great rejoicing?
1:First, Christmas is the Feast of God’s sending us a Savior :God undertook the Incarnation of Jesus as God-Man to save us from the bondage of sin. The Hindu Scriptures describe ten incarnations of God “to restore righteousness in the world whenever there is a large-scale erosion of moral values.” But the Christian Scriptures teach only one Incarnation, and its purpose is given in John 3: 16: “God so loved the world that He sent His only Son so that every one who believes in Him may not die, but have eternal life.”We celebrate the Incarnation of God as a baby today as Good News because we have a Divine Savior. As our Savior, Jesus liberated us from slavery to sin by his suffering, death and Resurrection, and he atoned for our sins.
1:First, Christmas is the Feast of God’s sending us a Savior :God undertook the Incarnation of Jesus as God-Man to save us from the bondage of sin. The Hindu Scriptures describe ten incarnations of God “to restore righteousness in the world whenever there is a large-scale erosion of moral values.” But the Christian Scriptures teach only one Incarnation, and its purpose is given in John 3: 16: “God so loved the world that He sent His only Son so that every one who believes in Him may not die, but have eternal life.”We celebrate the Incarnation of God as a baby today as Good News because we have a Divine Savior. As our Savior, Jesus liberated us from slavery to sin by his suffering, death and Resurrection, and he atoned for our sins.
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