The Annunciation of the Lord, Solemnity

Send us Fan MailTuesday, 25March 2025 The Annunciation of the Lord, Solemnity Antiphons and Readings on p 1588 of the Daily MissalFirst Reading: Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 40:7-8, 8b-9, 10, 11(R. cf 8a.9a)R/. See, I have come, Lord, to do your will.You delight not in sacrifice and offerings, but in an open ear. You do not ask for holocaust and victim. Then I said, “See, I have come.”In the scroll of the book it stands written of me: “I delight to do your will, O my God; your instruction lies deep within me.”Your justice I have proclaimed in the great assembly. My lips I have not sealed; you know it, O Lord.Your saving help I have not hidden in my heart; of your faithfulness and salvation I have spoken. I made no secret of your merciful love and your faithfulness to the great assembly.R/. See, I have come, Lord, to do your will.Second reading: Hebrews 10:4-10Brothers and sisters:It is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. Then I said,  ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,’ as it is written of me in the roll of the book.” When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure  in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He abolishes the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.Gospel: Luke 1:26-38At that time: The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.   And he came to her and said, “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!” But she was greatly troubled at the saying  and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be. And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there will be no end.”And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I do not know man?”And the angel said to her,  “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, your kinswoman Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. For with God nothing will be impossible.”And Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.