This translation is from the New American Bible. The bolded hyperlinks will take you to additional translations. The entire chapter is included to provide context.
Information about the meaning the original Hebrew or Greek of what seem to be key words is provided in blue. That information is provided beneath the specific reading the words are contained in.
Excerpts collected in yellow at the end of this post tell us something about God’s nature or our relationship to Him.
Excerpts collected in green at the end of this post tell us about something God wants us to do.
Excerpts collected in red at the end of this post tell us about something God does not want us to do.
Reading I
Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab
God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant could be seen in the temple.
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A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth.
Then another sign appeared in the sky; it was a huge red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on its heads were seven diadems. Its tail swept away a third of the stars in the sky and hurled them down to the earth.
Then the dragon stood before the woman about to give birth, to devour her child when she gave birth. She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was caught up to God and his throne.
The woman herself fled into the desert where she had a place prepared by God.
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Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have salvation and power come, and the Kingdom of our God and the authority of his Anointed One.”
salvation = σωτηρία =sōtēria
Safety, deliverance, preservation;deliverance from the molestation of enemies; rescue; health
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
deliverance, preservation; a way or means of safety; keeping safe, preservation; security, guarantee for safety;bodily health, well-being
power = δύναμις = dynamis
power, ability;strength; strength power, ability; inherent power, power residing in a thing by virtue of its nature, or which a person or thing exerts and puts forth; moral power and excellence of soul
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
power, might, bodily strength; strength, power, ability to do anything;outward power, influence, authority;faculty, capacity
kingdom = βασιλεία = basileia
is primarily an abstract noun, denoting "sovereignty, royal power, dominion;" denoting the ... people over whom a king rules; the right or authority to rule;reign; royal power and dignity; the rule of God; God's rule, the divine administration; the universe subject to God's sway, God's royal domain
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
Dominion; being ruled by a king; reign
authority = ἐξουσιάζω = exousiazō
to exercise power, to have power or authority, use power; to be master of any one, exercise authority over one; to have full and entire authority over the body; to be brought under the power of anyone
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
exercise authority, have power
Responsorial Psalm
R. (10bc) Thequeen stands at your right hand, arrayed in gold.
The queen takes her place at your right hand in gold of Ophir.
R. The queen stands at your right hand, arrayed in gold.
Hear, O daughter, and see; turn your ear, forget your people and your father’s house.
R. The queen stands at your right hand, arrayed in gold.
So shall the king desire your beauty; for he is your lord.
R. The queen stands at your right hand, arrayed in gold.
They are borne in with gladness and joy; they enter the palace of the king.
R. The queen stands at your right hand, arrayed in gold.
Reading II
Brothers and sisters:
Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through man, the resurrection of the dead came also through man. For just as in Adam all die, so too in Christ shall all be brought to life, but each one in proper order: Christ the firstfruits; then, at his coming, those who belong to Christ; then comes the end, when he hands over the Kingdom to his God and Father, when he has destroyed every sovereignty and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death, for “he subjected everything under his feet.”
brought to life = ζῳοποιέω = zōopoieō
to make alive, cause to live, quicken;to make alive; to produce alive, begat or bear living young; to cause to live, make alive, give life; by spiritual power to arouse and invigorate; to restore to life; to give increase of life: thus of physical life; quickening as respects the spirit, endued with new and greater powers of life; of seeds quickened into life, i.e. germinating, springing up, growing;to reanimate
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
make alive; endow with life
Alleluia
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Mary is taken up to heaven; a chorus of angels exults.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Blessedare you who believedthat what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.”
And Mary said:
My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my Savior
for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
From this day all generations will call me blessed: the Almighty has done great things for me and holy is his Name.
He has mercy on those who fear him in every generation.
He has shown the strength of his arm, and has scattered the proud in their conceit.
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.
He has come to the help of his servant Israel for he has remembered his promise of mercy, the promise he made to our fathers, to Abraham and his children forever.
Mary remained with her about three months and then returned to her home.
haste =σπουδή= spoudē
haste, zeal, diligence; earnest care, carefulness; watchful interest; carefulness; striving after anything; dispatch; earnestness in accomplishing, promoting, or striving after anything
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
with all dispatch; zeal, pains, trouble, effort; zealously, zealous exertions;to be eager,eagerness for; with great attention to,attentively; seriously, urgently
filled = πίμπλημι =pimplēmi
to fulfill, to be fulfilled, to complete, carry out to the full; what wholly takes possession of the mind; to complete, fill up; wholly take possession of
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
fill full, satisfy, glut
blessed = εὐλογέω = eulogeō
to speak well of; to praise, to celebrate with praises; "to cause to prosper, to make happy, to bestow blessings on; favoured of God; speak well of;
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
speak well of, praise, honour
Blessed= μακάριος = makarios
Happy; supremely blest; by extension, fortunate, well off
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
Happy, prosperous, bliss
believe = πιστεύω = pisteuō
to be persuaded of, and hence, to place confidence in, to trust, signifies, in this sense of the word, reliance upon, not mere credence; to entrust, commit to; to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in; to credit; the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul; mere acknowledgment of some fact or event: intellectual faith; put in trust with; a conviction, full of joyful trust ... conjoined with obedience; to have a faith directed unto, believing or in faith to give oneself up to
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
trust, put faith in, rely on; entertain a confident opinion; comply; believe that, feel confident that a thing is, will be, has been; have faith; entrust
proclaim = μεγαλύνω
to make great; enlarged, magnified; to make conspicuous;to deem or declare great; to esteem highly, to extol, laud, celebrate; to get glory and praise
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
make great or powerful, exalt; make great by word, extol, magnify
rejoices = ἀγαλλιάω = agalliaō
to exult, rejoice greatly; jubilant exultation, spiritual gladness; to beexceeding glad; to jump for joy
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
rejoice exceedingly
What these readings tell us about God/His ways
She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations
she had a place prepared by God
Now have salvation and power come
the Kingdom of our God
the authority of his Anointed One.”
the king desire your beauty
he is your lord.
They are borne in with gladness and joy
Christ has been raised from the dead,
in Christ shall all be brought to life,
Christ the firstfruits;
he hands over the Kingdom to his God and Father,
he has destroyed every sovereignty
and every authority and power.
he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
The last enemy to be destroyed is death,
Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste
filled with the Holy Spirit
Blessed are you who believed
the greatness of the Lord
God my Savior
he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
all generations will call me blessed
the Almighty has done great things for me
holy is his Name.
He has mercy on those who fear him in every generation.
the strength of his arm
has lifted up the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things
He has come to the help of his servant
he has remembered his promise of mercy
What these readings tell us to do:
Hear, O daughter, and see
turn your ear
forget your people and your father’s house
set out and traveled ... in haste
Blessed are you who believed
rejoices in God my Savior
the lowly
What these readings tell us not to do:
the proud
conceit
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