O Wisdom of our God Most High, 
guiding creation with power and love: 
come to teach us the path of knowledge!

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ,
the son of David, the son of Abraham.
(Mt 1:1)

Today we begin the final period of Advent, the time of the O Antiphons. Each day we will read through the Infancy Narratives (Chapters 1-2) of first Matthew’s gospel and then Luke’s which will take us all the way to Christmas Eve. The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ in Matthew’s gospel invites us all into the story of Salvation. Here we contemplate the Second Coming of Christ through the lens of his First Coming among us.