THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS
for December 18th, 2013
Liturgical texts here
WHEN Joseph learned that Mary was “found with child”, today’s Gospel says he set about to “divorce her quietly.”
How many today quietly “divorce” themselves from the Mother of God! How many say, “I can go to straight to Jesus. Why do I need her?” Or they say, “The Rosary is too long and boring,” or, “Devotion to Mary was a pre-Vatican II thing that we no longer need to do…”, and so forth. I too pondered the question of Mary many years ago. With a sweat on my brow, I poured over the Scriptures asking “Why do we Catholics make such a big deal of Mary?”