19 Dec 2021

Cinderella and Bethlehem

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For 19 December 2021, Fourth Sunday of Advent, based on Luke 1:39–45
In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leapt in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry, ‘Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And why has this happened to me, that the mother of my Lord comes to me? For as soon as I heard the sound of your greeting, the child in my womb leapt for joy. And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to her by the Lord.’

Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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About Fr. Peter Murnane, O.P.

A Dominican friar, born in Western Victoria in 1940, I worked up and down Eastern Australia from 1965 until 1991, when I went to Aotearoa-New Zealand for twenty years, then to the Solomon Islands. After some medical adventures, I’ve been back in Melbourne since 2016. Besides this blog, Archways to the Infinite was published in 2018, [Garratt Publications] and a book on clericalism will soon be launched.

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