Nigeria, Jan. 26 -- Third Sunday of the Year C - 26 January 2025.

Readings: Nehemiah 8:2-6,8-10; Responsorial Psalm 18:8-10,15; 1 Corinthians 12:12-30 & Gospel Luke 1:1-4,4:14-21.

The first reading recounts how Ezra the priest presented the Law to the generality of the children of Israel.The second readingpresents an analogy of the body working in unison as a metaphor for the Church, the body of Christ comprising various apostolates.In the gospel, St. Luke reveals that they were ministers of the Word from the outset. He emphasized that with the power of the spirit, Jesus came to Nazara where he was brought up, and went into the synagogues where the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him and he read it. Nourished by the liturgy o...