mmaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Reading
Isaiah 61: 9-11
61:9 And they will know their offspring among the nations, and their progeny in the midst of the peoples. All who see them will recognize them: that these are the offspring whom the Lord has blessed.
61:10 I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, and my soul will exult in my God. For he has clothed me with the vestments of salvation, and he has wrapped me in the clothing of justice, like a groom arrayed with a crown, and like a bride adorned with her jewels.
61:11 For as the earth brings forth its seedlings and the garden produces its seeds, so will the Lord God bring forth justice and praise in the sight of all the nations.
Second Reading
Second Corinthians 5: 14- 21
| 5:14 | For the charity of Christ urges us on, in consideration of this: that if one died for all, then all have died. |
| 5:15 | And Christ died for all, so that even those who live might not now live for themselves, but for him who died for them and who rose again. |
| 5:16 | And so, from now on, we know no one according to the flesh. And though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him in this way no longer. |
| 5:17 | So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new. |
| 5:18 | But all is of God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation. |
| 5:19 | For certainly God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not charging them with their sins. And he has placed in us the Word of reconciliation. |
| 5:20 | Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, so that God is exhorting through us. We beseech you for Christ: be reconciled to God. |
| 5:21 | For God made him who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the justice of God in him. |
Gospel
The Holy Gospel According to Luke 2: 41-51
| 2:41 | And his parents went every year to Jerusalem, at the time of the solemnity of Passover. |
| 2:42 | And when he had become twelve years old, they ascended to Jerusalem, according to the custom of the feast day. |
| 2:43 | And having completed the days, when they returned, the boy Jesus remained in Jerusalem. And his parents did not realize this. |
| 2:44 | But, supposing that he was in the company, they went a day’s journey, seeking him among their relatives and acquaintances. |
| 2:45 | And not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking him. |
| 2:46 | And it happened that, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, listening to them and questioning them. |
| 2:47 | But all who listened to him were astonished over his prudence and his responses. |
| 2:48 | And upon seeing him, they wondered. And his mother said to him: “Son, why have you acted this way toward us? Behold, your father and I were seeking you in sorrow.” |
| 2:49 | And he said to them: “How is it that you were seeking me? For did you not know that it is necessary for me to be in these things which are of my Father?” |
| 2:50 | And they did not understand the word that he spoke to them. |
| 2:51 | And he descended with them and went to Nazareth. And he was subordinate to them. And his mother kept all these words in her heart. |