Btw way, Mark, there is a shortened version can be read on Sunday as the full gospel for this weekend is very long. I assume there is no problem in shortening it as that is exactly what the Church did with a gospel at Christmas when they just airbrushed out quite an important sentence about Joseph having normal marital relations with Mary after Jesus was born. No wonder Francis is having a pop at the Virgin Mary soldiers. That half sentence reveals a pretty inconvenient truth for the Church-teaching-never-changes, fraternity.