December 12, 2014 Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Feast of Our
Lady of Guadalupe

Reading 1

Sing and
rejoice, O daughter Zion! See, I am coming to dwell among you, says the LORD. Many
nations shall join themselves to the LORD on that day, and they shall be his
people, and he will dwell among you, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts
has sent me to you.

The LORD will
possess Judah as his portion in the holy land, and he will again choose
Jerusalem.

Silence, all
mankind, in the presence of the LORD!

For he stirs
forth from his holy dwelling.

God’s temple
in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant could be seen in the temple. A
great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon
under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with child and
wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth. Then another sign appeared
in the sky it was a huge red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on
its heads were seven diadems. Its tail swept away a third of the stars in the
sky and hurled them down to the earth.

Then the
dragon stood before the woman about to give birth, to devour her child when she
gave birth. She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the
nations with an iron rod. Her child was caught up to God and his throne. The
woman herself fled into the desert where she had a place prepared by God.

Then I heard
a loud voice in heaven sayand Now have salvation and power come, and the Kingdom
of our God and the authority of his Anointed.”

Responsorial
Psalm

R. You are
the highest honor of our race.

Blessed are
you, daughter, by the Most High God, above all the women on earth and blessed
be the LORD God, the creator of heaven and earth.

R. You are
the highest honor of our race.

Your deed of
hope will never be forgotten by those who tell of the might of God.

R. You are
the highest honor of our race.

Gospel Lk
1:26-38

The angel
Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin
betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name
was Mary.

And coming to
her, he said, Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you.” But she was greatly
troubled at what was said and pondered what sort of greeting this might be.

Then the
angel said to her, Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Behold,
you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus. He
will be great and will be called Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will
give him the throne of David his father, and he will rule over the house of
Jacob forever, and of his Kingdom there will be no end.”

But Mary said
to the angel, How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?” And the angel said to her in reply, The Holy
Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.

Therefore the
child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. And behold, Elizabeth,
your relative, has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth
month for her who was called barren for nothing will be impossible for God.” Mary
said, Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to
your word.”

Then the angel
departed from her. Mary set out and travelled to the hill country in haste to a
town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.

When Elizabeth
heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled
with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, Most blessed are you
among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to
me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound
of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed
are you who believed

that what was
spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.”

And Mary saidand My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord
my spirit rejoices in God my savior.”