FRIENDS and SERVANTS of the WORD
21 NOVEMBER 2024
33nd Thursday Ordinary Time
PRESENTATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
WORD of the DAY
While Jesus was speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers appeared outside, wishing to speak with him. Someone told him, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, asking to speak with you.” But he said in reply to the one who told him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?” And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother.” (Matthew 12: 46-50)
How shall I live this Word?
Today the liturgy invites us to contemplate the presentation of the Virgin Mary. Since childhood, Mary offers herself entirely to God and it is through her that the face of the mercy of God, His Son Jesus Christ, comes to us. It is she who places us within the larger family that is the Kingdom of God which is built by welcoming the Word of God and making it alive in one’s daily life. Today we are invited to pray the Magnificat with Mary, to remember how many wonders God has offered us since our birth and to give a new meaning to our baptism, to our belonging to the family of Jesus Christ.
O Lord, in the glorious memory of the most holy Virgin Mary, grant that we too may share in the fullness of Your grace through her intercession.
The voice of Pope Francis Christian Ecumenical Prayer
Our God, Trinity of love, from the powerful communion of your divine intimacy, pour out among us the river of fraternal love. Give us the love that was evident in the gestures of Jesus, in His family of Nazareth, and in the first Christian community.
Grant that Christians may live the Gospel and recognize Christ in every human being, to see Him crucified in the anguish of the abandoned and forgotten of this world, and risen in every oner who stands up again.
Come, Holy Spirit! Show us Your beauty reflected in all the peoples of the earth, to discover that all are important, that all are necessary, that they are different faces of the same humanity loved by God. Amen.
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