Isaiah 49:3, 5-6 God’s just servant is raised up as a light to all the nations.
Psalm 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10 God’s law is in the heart and the divine song in the mouth of the one who does God’s will.
1 Corinthians 1:1-3 Bearing the name of Jesus commits us to the way of holiness.
John 1:29-34 The Holy Spirit identifies the Lamb of God to John.
We speak of Jesus “taking away” the sin of the world.
Who are you, really? Most of us can’t give a one-word answer to that question.
In Richard Wagner's magnificent opera Die Meistersinger, a night watchman walks through an apparently deserted street calling out, “Hear, people, what I say, the clock has struck 10; guard your fire and also your light so that no one comes to harm! Praise God the Lord!”
Years ago, Mary Mitchell, in a column in the Chicago Sun-Times, introduced readers to a woman named Cheryl Breaux.
Brothers and sisters, let us acknowledge our sins, and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.
The Lord was baptized . . . to cleanse waters, so that those waters . . . might have the power of Baptism.
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