Archbishop Patrick C. Pinder

Red Mass Homily

Your Lordship, the Chief Justice and your fellow Justices of the Supreme Court, Madam President and Justices of the Court of Appeals; Other Members of the Judiciary; Honorable Attorney General, Director of Legal Affairs; President of the Bar Association and Bar Council; Members of the Bar and Legal Profession; Beloved in Christ:

I convey, in the words of Paul, grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. It is my pleasure to welcome you here on this very special day, the Feast of the Epiphany. This feast falls within the season of Christmas when we commemorate nothing less than the infinite coming among us as an infant. More precisely, this Feast signals that moment when Christ, the long expected Light of the World, was revealed in the flesh to all the nations, as represented by the Magi.

What a cause for joy! Here is the revelation of an unquenchable light—a light which illumines a world long shrouded in darkness and despair.

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