'Many will rejoice at his birth'. Sunday Reflections for the Birthday of St John the Baptist
Birth of the Baptist, Andrea
Pisano 1330 Gilt Bronze (panel of southern door), Baptistry, Florence, Italy
Readings
(New American Bible:
Philippines, USA)
Readings (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, India
[optional], Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa)
Vigil Mass and Mass During the Day [The
readings for the Vigil Mass are on the upper part of the page, those for the
Mass During the Day on the lower part of the page.]
Liturgical Note. The
Solemnity of the Birth of St John the Baptist, like Easter and some other
solemnities, has a Vigil, properly so-called. This is not an ‘anticipated Mass’
but a Vigil Mass in its own right, with its own set of prayers and readings. It
fulfils our Sunday obligation. The prayers and readings of the Mass During the
Day should not be used for the Vigil Mass, nor those of the Vigil Mass for the
Mass During the Day. As a solemnity, this celebration takes precedence over the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Gospel Luke
1:57-66, 80 (Revised Standard Version –
Catholic Edition)
Now the time came for Elizabeth to be delivered, and she
gave birth to a son. And her neighbors and kinsfolk heard that the Lord had
shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. And on the eighth day
they came to circumcise the child; and they would have named him Zechariah
after his father, but his mother said, "Not so; he shall be called
John." And they said to her, "None of your kindred is called by this
name." And they made signs to his father, inquiring what he would have him
called. And he asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is
John." And they all marveled. And immediately his mouth was opened and his
tongue loosed, and he spoke, blessing God. And fear came on all their
neighbors. And all these things were talked about through all the hill country
of Judea; and all who heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying,
"What then will this child be?" For the hand of the Lord was with
him.
And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was
in the wilderness till the day of his manifestation to Israel.
The Visitation, El Greco, painted 1610-13
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