Day: September 15, 2023

Mass for Young Adults

September 14, 2023
St. Joseph Catholic Church
Arlington, Texas

Numbers 21:4b-9
Psalm 78:1bc-2, 34-35, 36-37, 38
Philippians 2: 6-11
John 3:13-17

We have just listened to the following words from our second reading from Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians, “Christ Jesus, though He was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, He emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross.” These words of Saint Paul have come to be understood as exemplifying what theologians call “kenosis.”