Today's Gospel reading

Liturgical Day: December 21, Saturday
    Gospel (Lk 1: 39-45): In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country to a town of Judah, where she entered Zechariah's home and greeted Elizabeth. It happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, leaped the child in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud voice, he said: "Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of thy bosom, and whence is this to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? Because, just came to my ears the sound of your greeting, the child leaped in my womb.Blessed is she who believed that the promise made her by the Lord "would be fulfilled.

Your brother in Christ, Father Santiago