20 December 2025 – Saturday of the 3rd week of Advent
Homily
Today we have the same Gospel as on the day of the Annunciation of the Lord, exactly nine months before the feast of the Nativity, the day on which we celebrate the moment of Jesus' conception in Mary's womb, -- the first moment of God's human existence. This moment, which divides the whole of human history into two great periods - that before Christ and that after Christ's birth - is the subject of various announcements or ‘foreshadowing’ in the Gospels.