When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety” (Luke 2:48). ’Twas the Sunday after Christmas and all through conservative Catholicland the great post-Christmas drama for fundamentalist Catholics is whether the lector will read the “long” version of the epistle during the liturgy of the word. Never mind that the rubrics permit using the... Read more