EPISODE · Dec 31, 2025 · 11 MIN
The Baby Who Made the Stars | Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | December 31, 2025
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Join us for today's Catholic Mass Readings, featuring the daily Mass readings from the Holy Bible and a Catholic reflection. Find peace and enhance your faith with daily Scripture. Experience the presence of Jesus Christ in the Gospel and find peace in a special rendition of the Psalm created for today's liturgy from the USCCB.Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas | December 31, 2025In the beginning was the Word.On the last day of the year, the Church gives us the first words of John's Gospel. Not the manger. Not the shepherds. Just this: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.Before Bethlehem, there was this. Before Mary said yes, before Gabriel appeared, before creation groaned for redemption, there was the Word. All things came to be through him.We have spent the past week at the manger watching shepherds arrive and Simeon weep and the Holy Family flee. We have seen the baby wrapped in swaddling clothes. And now John pulls back the curtain and shows us who that baby actually is.The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. The eternal Word who existed before time took on flesh. He did not pretend to be human. He became flesh. Fully. Permanently. Irreversibly.This is the scandal of Christmas. The infinite became finite. The Creator became creature. The Word who spoke the universe into being became an infant who could not yet speak at all.The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. That light is still shining. The Word is still dwelling among us.📖 Readings1 John 2: 18-21Psalm 96John 1:1-18⏱️ Timeline00:00 Introduction00:15 Reading I - 1 John 2: 18-2100:52 Psalm Response - Psalm 9605:45 Gospel - John 1:1-1807:22 Reflection - The Baby Who Made the Stars🎧 Prefer to listen on the go? The Christus Dominus Daily Bread podcast is now available: Video Podcast: Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/7H4YZ5ZIq4rVVF3670Av3t YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTPJP7WEcCSTIO2N4N_AoIsxmzIYRYiSt Audio Podcast: Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/christus-dominus-daily-bread/id1826298886#CatholicDailyReadings #CatholicMass #OctaveOfChristmas #JohnPrologue #WordMadeFlesh #CatholicReflection
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Join us for today's Catholic Mass Readings, featuring the daily Mass readings from the Holy Bible and a Catholic reflection. Find peace and enhance your faith with daily Scripture. Experience the presence of Jesus Christ in the Gospel and find peace in a special rendition of the Psalm created for today's liturgy from the USCCB.Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas | December 31, 2025In the beginning was the Word.On the last day of the year, the Church gives us the first words of John's Gospel. Not the manger. Not the shepherds. Just this: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.Before Bethlehem, there was this. Before Mary said yes, before Gabriel appeared, before creation groaned for redemption, there was the Word. All things came to be through him.We have spent the past week at the manger watching shepherds arrive and Simeon weep and the Holy Family flee. We have seen the baby wrapped in swaddling clothes. And now John pulls back the curtain and shows us who that baby actually is.The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. The eternal Word who existed before time took on flesh. He did not pretend to be human. He became flesh. Fully. Permanently. Irreversibly.This is the scandal of Christmas. The infinite became finite. The Creator became creature. The Word who spoke the universe into being became an infant who could not yet speak at all.The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. That light is still shining. The Word is still dwelling among us.📖 Readings1 John 2: 18-21Psalm 96John 1:1-18⏱️ Timeline00:00 Introduction00:15 Reading I - 1 John 2: 18-2100:52 Psalm Response - Psalm 9605:45 Gospel - John 1:1-1807:22 Reflection - The Baby Who Made the Stars🎧 Prefer to listen on the go? The Christus Dominus Daily Bread podcast is now available: Video Podcast: Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/7H4YZ5ZIq4rVVF3670Av3t YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTPJP7WEcCSTIO2N4N_AoIsxmzIYRYiSt Audio Podcast: Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/christus-dominus-daily-bread/id1826298886#CatholicDailyReadings #CatholicMass #OctaveOfChristmas #JohnPrologue #WordMadeFlesh #CatholicReflection
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