This is the celebrated prayer over the gifts, prescribed by the Roman Missal for use today, the 2nd Sunday of the Year. It’s short, and starkly simple, but it points to the heart of our Catholic faith. It explains why we are here now, and what we’re doing. The prayer is…
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Year “A”
At Christmas we celebrated how God in Christ became flesh, in order to identify with us in our humanity. He emptied himself, says St. Paul, being made in the likeness of men (cf. Phil 2:7). Today we see how he went further. He humbled himself so far as to identify with us even in our sinfulness, though…