Happy Holidays Christmas Mass at Our Lady of Mount
Carmel Catholic Church (West)! Some of my grandchildren! Blessed
‘God rest ye merry gentlemen … let nothing you dismay Remember
Christ our Savior was born on Christmas Day!
Feast of the Holy Innocents, martyrs
Reading I 1 Jn 1:5—2:2
Beloved:
This is the message that we have heard from Jesus Christ and
proclaim to you:
God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.
If we say, “We have fellowship with him,” while we continue to walk
in darkness,we lie and do not act in truth.
But if we walk in the light as he is in the light,then we have
fellowship with one another,and the Blood of his Son Jesus cleanses
us from all sin.
If we say, “We are without sin,”we deceive ourselves, and the truth
is not in us.
If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive
our sins and cleanse us from every wrongdoing.
If we say, “We have not sinned,” we make him a liar, and his word is
not in us.
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My children, I am writing this to you so that you
may not commit sin.
But if anyone does sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteous one.
He is expiation for our sins,and not for our sins only but for those
of the whole world.
Gospel Mt 2:13-18
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When the magi had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared
to Joseph in a dream and said,“Rise, take the child and his mother,
flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you.
Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him.”
Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed
for Egypt.
He stayed there until the death of Herod, that what the Lord had
said through the prophet might be fulfilled, Out of Egypt I called
my son.
When Herod realized that he had been deceived by the magi,he became
furious.
He ordered the massacre of all the boys in Bethlehem and its
vicinity two years old and under,in accordance with the time he had
ascertained from the magi.
Then was fulfilled what had been said through Jeremiah the prophet:
A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and loud lamentation;
Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be consoled,
since they were no more.
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