Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 03-17-2021 (optional commemoration of Saint Patrick, Bishop, Missionary)
Altar, St. Patrick Cathedral, New York City
Readings at Mass
Thus says the Lord:
on the day of salvation I will help you.
(I have formed you and have appointed you
as covenant of the people.)
I will restore the land
and assign you the estates that lie waste.
I will say to the prisoners, ‘Come out’,
to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’
On every roadway they will graze,
and each bare height shall be their pasture.
They will never hunger or thirst,
scorching wind and sun shall never plague them;
Guest Contributor
ABSTRACT: Jesus Christ, the God-man, is the central glory of the Christian faith. Yet the very fact that he is both God and man has become the occasion of many misunderstandings and distortions, even among sincere Christians. Some speak as if he were not fully human; others as if he were not fully divine; still others as if he is no longer both God and man. Christians throughout the centuries have taken care to correct such common errors â not because they enjoyed splitting hairs, but because they knew that less-than-precise views of Jesus always work to our spiritual detriment.