Homily: Solemnity of Mary - Year ABC (1/2020)

Readings: Nm 6:22-27; Ps 67; Gal 4:4-7; Lk 2:16-21
Mary is the God-bearer who brought Our Lord into the world and presented Him as the Father’s gift to all of humanity. It’s a gift of love, arising from God’s hope that we will turn from our sinfulness and accept Him into our hearts. It’s a gift of divine forgiveness, of His outrageous mercy, a gift that will trump the power of sin and overcome all hatred, violence, revenge, addiction…all the evils of the world. It’s a gift of Jesus Christ Himself, a gift we receive in a most special way in the Eucharist.