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Holiness is the key theme for this Sunday’s readings.
This Sunday’s Gospels is filled with hard sayings, sayings that very much affect our life as Christians. The Gospel is one that needs to be taken seriously, as it has to do with our eternal destiny.
Today’s liturgy of February 2nd brings together the Feast of the Presentation, the feast of Our Lady of the Blessed Candle (Matka Boska Gromniczna) and the World Day for Consecrated Life.
Let us consider some themes of this Third Sunday of Ordinary Time, in particular the themes of the Word of God, divisions and dissensions in the Church, and family ties in the context of the call of the apostles.
“Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a Person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction” (Pope Benedict XVI, Deus caritas est, 1).
We celebrate on this Sunday the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which ends the liturgical season of Christmas.