Third Sunday of the Year
Neh 8:2-6 & 8-10; 1 Cor 12:12-30; Lk 1:1-4 & 4:14-21 (Year C)
‘The Law of the Lord is perfect, it revives the soul. The precepts of the Lord are right, they gladden the heart. The command of the Lord is clear, it gives light to the eyes.”
The responsorial psalm at this Sunday’s liturgy is a litany of praise for God’s will as revealed in Israel’s Law. It follows Nehemiah’s account of the proclamation of the Law to the assembled faithful who had returned to Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile. “Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly. He read from the book from early morning till noon, all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.”
