The Responsorial Psalm invites us to sing a new song to the Lord. We sing a new song because "the Lord has made known his salvation", not now through the words of the prophets, nor through the many promises of the Old Testament but through the child born for us in Bethlehem. In this great new event God has remembered his truth and his love. The Old Testament can be summed up as God remembering and Israel forgetting. God remembers, not our sin but his Covenant, his truth and his love. Mankind, in Israel, so easily forgets and so abuses God's great gifts, whether the gift of creation, the gift of forgiveness and mercy. What is true of all is true of each: we too often squander our talents.

With the gift of Jesus, there comes the gift of wisdom. This gift of wisdom guides us to act more constantly in union with Jesus to build the Kingdom of God on earth. By the gift of Jesus and through Jesus, God continually forms us in his own image and likeness. He constantly fosters and cherishes us with his eternal truth and love which became flesh in Jesus