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This weekend, we hear a message loud and clear from Jesus: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” The Lord is calling all of us to dedicate ourselves to the hard but necessary work of ongoing conversion, so that we may be disciples who draw others to the Lord Jesus and his Church.

The three main characters in today’s scripture readings heard God calling them to take some action to advance his divine plan and purpose.  Isaiah heard a call to bring a message of hope to his beleaguered people who were being held hostage in Babylon. 

The magi in the gospel story today thought they were giving this child some priceless material gifts -- gold fit for a king, incense for his worship of God, and myrrh for his proper burial

On this New Year’s Day when we celebrate the feast of Mary, the Mother of God, St. Luke tells us that observing all the wondrous happenings at the crib of her Son, Mary simply “kept all the things about her Son in her heart.”