First Reading Genesis 3:9-15,20
The mother of all
those who live
After Adam had eaten of the tree the Lord
God called to him. ‘Where are you?’ he asked. ‘I heard the sound of you in the
garden;’ he replied ‘I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.’ ‘Who told you
that you were naked?’ he asked ‘Have you been eating of the tree I forbade you
to eat?’ The man replied, ‘It was the woman you put with me; she gave me the
fruit, and I ate it.’ Then the Lord God asked the woman, ‘What is this you have
done?’ The woman replied, ‘The serpent tempted me and I ate.’
Then the Lord God said to the serpent,
‘Because you have done this, ‘Be accursed beyond all cattle, all wild beasts. You
shall crawl on your belly and eat dust every day of your life. I will make you
enemies of each other: you and the woman, your offspring and her offspring. It
will crush your head and you will strike its heel.’
The man named his wife ‘Eve’ because she
was the mother of all those who live. Universalis
Second Reading Ephesians 1:3-6,11-12 Before the world was made, God chose
us in Christ
Blessed be God the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all the spiritual blessings of heaven in
Christ. Before the world was made, he chose us, chose us in Christ, to be holy
and spotless, and to live through love in his presence, determining that we
should become his adopted sons, through Jesus Christ for his own kind purposes,
to make us praise the glory of his grace, his free gift to us in the Beloved, and
it is in him that we were claimed as God’s own, chosen from the beginning, under
the predetermined plan of the one who guides all things as he decides by his
own will; chosen to be, for his greater glory, the people who would put their
hopes in Christ before he came.
Gospel Luke
1:26-38 'I am the handmaid of the Lord'
The angel Gabriel was sent by God to a
town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph,
of the House of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. He went in and said to
her, ‘Rejoice, so highly favoured! The Lord is with you.’ She was deeply
disturbed by these words and asked herself what this greeting could mean, but
the angel said to her, ‘Mary, do not be afraid; you have won God’s favour.
Listen! You are to conceive and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus. He
will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give
him the throne of his ancestor David; he will rule over the House of Jacob forever
and his reign will have no end.’ Mary said to the angel, ‘But how can this come
about, since I am a virgin?’ ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you’ the angel
answered ‘and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so
the child will be holy and will be called Son of God. Know this too: your
kinswoman Elizabeth has, in her old age, herself conceived a son, and she whom
people called barren is now in her sixth month, for nothing is impossible to
God.’ ‘I am the handmaid of the Lord,’ said Mary ‘let what you have said be
done to me.’ And the angel left her. CDR
My God, my Father blessed be your Holy
Name. Father you have blessed us with all the spiritual blessings of heaven in
Christ. Father before the world was made, you chose us in Christ, to be holy
and spotless. It is your desire for us to live in your presence, that we should
become your adopted sons and daughters. We praise and thank you for your free
gift.
Through Christ Jesus we were claimed as
God’s own. Father you chose us from the beginning, under your predetermined
plan for your greater glory. Come Lord Jesus Christ our King of Glory.
Pray the Holy Rosary. Jesus I trust in you. Saint Joseph pray for me. My Angel Guardian pray for me. Protect and guard me.
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