December 17, 2025, Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)

Friends of the Rosary,

Today’s main reading (Matthew 1:1–17) features the genealogy of Jesus, showing that Christ didn’t appear out of the blue. He emerged from a dense history of a long line of great and not-so-great characters. Like most families and ancestors, a mixed bag: saints, sinners, cheats, prostitutes, murderers, poets, kings, insiders, and outsiders.

God became one of us, in all of our grace and embarrassment, in all of our beauty and ugliness. And this is good news because it means that God can bring Christ to birth even in people like us.

St. Irenaeus tells us that the incarnation had been taking place over a long period, with God gradually accustoming himself to the human race.

Ave Maria
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!

Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!

+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New York

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