Thursday, December 17, 2015

 

FRIDAY, 3rd Week of Advent

December 18, 2015 FRIDAY, 3rd Week of Advent    

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Jer 23:5 – 8 / Mt 1:18 - 25   

 

Reading: Jer 23: 5 - 86

     Yahweh further says, "The day is coming when I will raise up a king who is David's righteous successor. He will rule wisely and govern with justice and righteousness. That will be a grandiose era when Judah will enjoy peace and Israel will live in safety. He will be called Yahweh-our-justice!"

     "The days are coming," says Yahweh, "when people shall no longer swear by Yahweh as the living God who freed the people of Israel from the land of Egypt. Rather, they will swear by Yahweh as the living God who restored the descendants of Israel from the northern empire and from all the lands where he had driven them, to live again in their own land!"

 

Gospel: Mt 1:18 - 25

     This is how Jesus Christ was born. Mary his mother had been given to Joseph in marriage but before they lived together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.

     Then Joseph, her husband, made plans to divorce her in all secrecy. He was an upright man, and in no way did he want to discredit her. 

     While he was pondering over this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph, descendant of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. She has conceived by the Holy Spirit, and now she will bear a son. You shall call him 'Jesus' for he will save his people from their sins."

     All this happened in order to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and he will be called Emmanuel which means: God-with-us. When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had told him to do and he took his wife to his home. So she gave birth to a son and he had not had marital relations with her. Joseph gave him the name of Jesus.

  

Reflection:

     Jesus is the Messiah, the Promised One of God who would bring Israel back to God. In the Old Testament, Yahweh God led the people of Israel out of Egypt through great signs and wonders. Then he helped them to conquer Canaan, the Promised Land. He gave them a great king, David. But Israel would turn away from Yahweh and follow other gods. So Yahweh dispersed her in exile among the nations. After many centuries, the Israelites would come back to their own land in Palestine.  

     In the fullness of time, the Word is born as a man through Mary, an Israelite maiden. Made incarnate in a virgin, this is had to be explained to Joseph who was betrothed to Mary: an angel appears to Joseph in a dream to tell him that Mary's Child is the promised Messiah, the future Savior of Israel.

     Jesus is the fulfilment of the promises and prophesies in the Scriptures. He is the Son of David, coming from David's line, and true Son of God, made incarnate by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary.

     We thank God for his gracious gift of his Son who toook upon himself our humanity for our salvation.

 

 

WE PRAY FOR MTQ DAILY PRAYER DIARY INTENTIONS:

 

BIRTHDAY

     FR. MAC R. REYES, SJ

     MEL SANDIEGO

 

WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

     BENITO & ALICE CUA

     GLENN & MARISA ESPINO

     ZENAIDA & ALEXANDER SEE CO

 

Finally, we pray for one another, for those who have asked our prayers and for those who need our prayers the most. 

 

Have a good day!

 

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THURSDAY, 3rd Week of Advent

December 17, 2015 THURSDAY, 3rd Week of Advent        

[Misa de Gallo - White, with Gloria]  

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Gn 49:2. 8 – 10 / Mt 1:1-17

 

Reading: Gn 49:2. 8 – 10

     "Gather round, sons of Jacob. And listen to your father Israel! Judah, your brothers will praise you! You shall seize your enemies by the neck! Your father's sons shall bow before you.

     Judah, a young lion! You return from the prey, my son! Like a lion he stoops and crouches, and like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?

     The scepter shall not be taken from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs, and who has the obedience of the nations.

 

Gospel: Mt 1:1 – 17

     This is the document of the origins of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham. 

     Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers. Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah (their mother was Tamar), Perez was the father of Hezron, and Hezron of Aram. Aram was the father of Aminadab, Aminadab of Nahshon, Nahshon of Salmon. Salmon was the father of Boaz. His mother was Rahab. Boaz was the father of Obed. His mother was Ruth. Obed was the father of Jesse. Jesse was the father of David, the king.

     David was the father of Solomon. His mother had been Uriah's wife. Solomon was the father of Rehoboam. Then came the kings: Abijah, Asaph, Jehoshaphat, Joram, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah. Josiah was the father of Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the deportation to Babylon. 

     After the deportation to Babylon Jechoniah was the father of Salathiel and Salathiel of Zerubbabel. Zerubbabel was the father of Abiud, Abiud of Eliakim, and Eliakim of Azor. Azor was the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Akim, and Akim the father of Eliud. Eliud was the father of Eleazar, Eleazar of Matthan, and Matthan of Jacob. Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and from her came Jesus who is called the Christ – the Messiah. 

     There were then fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, and fourteen generations from David to the deportation to Babylon, and fourteen generations from the deportation to Babylon to the birth of Christ.

 

Reflection:

     The Gospel reading gives the genealogy of Jesus starting from Abraham up to Joseph, his foster-father. We know that the Son of God was made incarnate by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary. With Mary as his mother the Word who "was in the beginning with God" and who "was God" (Jn 1:1, 2) was "made flesh" (Jn 1:13) and was truly human.

Matthew's long genealogy over forty-two generations from Abraham to Joseph, his foster-father, was meant to stress his humanity and ancestry from Abraham, the father of God's people, through the royal lineage of King David: "Though being divine in nature, he did not claim in fact equality with God, but emptied himself, taking on the nature of a servant, made in human likeness, and in his appearance found as a man." (Phil 2: 6 -7)

     We pray in faith and hope, "God, Creator and Redeemer of human nature, who willed that your Word should take flesh in an ever-virgin womb, look with favor on our prayers, that your Only-begotten Son, having taken to himself our humanity, may be pleased to grant us a share in his divinity."  (Collect, 17 December Mass)

 

 

WE PRAY FOR MTQ DAILY PRAYER DIARY INTENTIONS:

 

BIRTHDAY

     FELIXON DEAN A. SAW

     

THANKSGIVING

     HENRY LIM UY

 

WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

     ERNIE & PUNY DY

 

IN MEMORIAM (+)

     WELLINGTON C. CHAN

 

Finally, we pray for one another, for those who have asked our prayers and for those who need our prayers the most. 

 

Have a good day!

 

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