A Message on the Word’s Mission
Master of the Holy Kingship the Younger,The Nativity, Altarpiece of the Seven Joys,cir. 1480 FOR THIS PURPOSE, then, the incorporeal and incorruptible and immaterial Word of God entered our world. In one sense, indeed, He was not far from it before, for no part of creation had ever been without Him Who, while ever abiding in union with the Father, yet fills all things that are. But now He entered the world in a new [...]
Fourth Sunday of Advent — A Message from St. Pope John Paul II
Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness Indicating Christ, the River Jordan Beyond,Antoine de Favray, 1759 Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Luke (3:1-6) Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Iturea and the country of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilina, under the high-priests Annas and Caiphas: the word of the [...]