Daily Mass Readings for February 02, 2025: Gospel — Lc 2, 22-40

¹ “I am about to send my messenger, who will clear the way before me. Indeed, the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you long for, is certainly coming,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. ² Who can endure the day of his coming? Who can keep standing when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap. ³ He will act like a refiner and purifier of silver and will cleanse the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will offer the Lord a proper offering. ⁴ The offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in former times and years past.

1 ⁴ Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise shared in their humanity, so that through death he could destroy the one who holds the power of death (that is, the devil), 1 ⁵ and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death. 1 ⁶ For surely his concern is not for angels, but he is concerned for Abraham’s descendants. 1 ⁷ Therefore he had to be made like his brothers and sisters in every respect, so that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people. 1 ⁸ For since he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.