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Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 12-19-2020, Saturday of the Third Week of Advent Posted on Basilica of the Holy Blood, Bruges, Belgium By Matt Hopkins - originally posted to Flickr as Chapel on One End, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6866911 Lectionary 195 whose name was Manoah. An angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “Though you are barren and have had no children, yet you will conceive and bear a son. Now, then, be careful...

Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 On the final day of the Jewish feast of Hanukkah – and just a week before Christmas – we focused once again on the light of the world represented for many by the central ‘servant’ (or Shammash) candle of the nine-branched menorah. Last Saturday I was privileged to host a talk on Hanukkah by the Rev David Pileggi, Rector of Christ Church, Jerusalem, headquarters in Israel for the past 175 years of the Church’s Ministry among Jewish people (CMJ). Rev Pileggi is c...

Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 12-15-2020, Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent Posted on Christ the King, Above the entrance door to the Westminster Cathedral, London, UK Lectionary 188 to the tyrannical city! to her God she has not drawn near. For then I will change and purify the lips of the peoples, That they all may call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one accord; From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia and as far as the recesses of the North, they shall bring me o...

Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 12-13-2020, Memorial of Saint Damasus I, pope Posted on Lectionary 8 because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, and release to the prisoners, to announce a year of favor from the LORD and a day of vindication by our God. I rejoice heartily in the LORD, in my God is the joy of my soul; for he has clothed me with a robe of salvation and wrapped me in a mantle of justice, like a br...