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TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
Saturday
Year I
Readings
First Reading
Jl 4:12–21
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 97:1–2, 5–6, 11–12
Gospel
Lk 11:27–28
Meditation on Today’s Readings Taken from
the Vatican
II Sunday and Weekday Missal
Written by Celia Sirois
Today’s Gospel, all of two verses,
is unique to Luke and is important for what it tells us about Mary.
A woman declares the mother of Jesus blessed for the privilege of
being his biological parent. Jesus replies with a second beatitude
that, in spite of the English translation, does not discount the
first one. As Raymond Brown et al. explain in their book, Mary
in the New Testament, the word menoun, rendered here
as “rather,” can also mean “yes, but even more.”—*
Without denying Mary’s unique privilege, Jesus declares her
even more blessed for having heard the word of God and kept it.
His mother is a model disciple. Marian devotion has often used the
city of Jerusalem as an image of Mary. Today’s reading from
Joel explains why, for God’s presence within her makes both
Jerusalem and Mary holy—full of grace.
The selection from Galatians extends our
reflection on Mary. Faith and baptism in Christ Jesus make us children
of God, but of Mary too, that daughter of Abraham who inherited
all that was promised.
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Missal Introductions is:
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Missal Introduction is:
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