Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Daily Archive
St. Thomas Day Lecture 2010 – January 28
Posted by Fr. Aquinas on 03 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Dominicans, Lectures, Parish Events
Epiphany of the Lord
Posted by Fr. Aquinas on 03 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Liturgical Feasts
Today the Bridegroom claims his bride, the Church,
since Christ has washed her sins away in Jordan’s waters;
the Magi hasten with their gifts to the royal wedding;
and the wedding guests rejoice, for Christ has changed water into wine, alleluia.
“The loving providence of God determined that in the last days he would aid the world, set on its course to destruction. He decreed that all nations should be saved in Christ.
“A promise had been made to the holy patriarch Abraham in regard to these nations. He was to have a countless progeny, born not from his body but from the seed of faith. His descendants are therefore compared with the array of the stars. The father of all nations was to hope not in an earthly progeny but in a progeny from above.
“Let the full number of the nations now take their place in the family of the patriarchs. Let the children of the promise now receive the blessing in the seed of Abraham, the blessing renounced by the children of his flesh. In the persons of the Magi let all people adore the Creator of the universe; let God be known, not in Judea only, but in the whole world, so that his name may be great in all Israel.”
— Saint Leo the Great
Sermo 3 in Epiphania Domini, 1-2
Father,
you revealed your Son to the nations
by the guidance of a star.
Lead us to your glory in heaven
by the light of faith.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, forever and ever. Amen.