SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT (YEAR C) - DECEMBER 09, 2012

Saturday, December 08, 2012

Second Sunday of Advent – Year C

 

5:30 pm  Novena to Our Lady

6:00 pm  Mass in English

 

Almighty and merciful GOD, may no earthly undertaking hinder those who set out in haste to meet Your Son, but may our learning of heavenly wisdom gain us admittance to His company, Who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one GOD, for ever and ever. Amen!

First Reading

BARUCH 5:1-9
Up, Jerusalem

1 Jerusalem, take off your dress of sorrow and distress, put on the beauty of God's glory for evermore,

2 wrap the cloak of God's saving justice around you, put the diadem of the Eternal One's glory on your head,
3 for God means to show your splendour to every nation under heaven,

4 and the name God gives you for evermore will be, 'Peace-through-Justice, and Glory-through-Devotion'.
5 Arise, Jerusalem, stand on the heights and turn your eyes to the east: see your children reassembled from west and east at the Holy One's command, rejoicing because God has remembered.
6 Though they left you on foot driven by enemies, now God brings them back to you, carried gloriously, like a royal throne.
7 For God has decreed the flattening of each high mountain, of the everlasting hills, the filling of the valleys to make the ground level so that Israel can walk safely in God's glory.
8 And the forests and every fragrant tree will provide shade for Israel, at God's command;
9 for God will guide Israel in joy by the light of his glory, with the mercy and saving justice which come from him. A copy of the letter which Jeremiah sent to those about to be led captive to Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to tell them what he had been commanded by God:

“The Word of the Lord”

 

PSALMS 126:1-6
The Lord has done great things for us;
we are filled with joy.

1 [Song of Ascents] When Yahweh brought back Zion's captives we lived in a dream;

2 then our mouths filled with laughter, and our lips with song. Then the nations kept saying, 'What great deeds Yahweh has done for them!'
3 Yes, Yahweh did great deeds for us, and we were overjoyed.
4 Bring back, Yahweh, our people from captivity like torrents in the Negeb!

5 Those who sow in tears sing as they reap.
6 He went off, went off weeping, carrying the seed. He comes back, comes back singing, bringing in his sheaves.

 

Second Reading
PHILIPPIANS 1:4-6, 8-11
In the day of Christ

4 and every time I pray for you all, I always pray with joy

5 for your partnership in the gospel from the very first day up to the present.
6 I am quite confident that the One who began a good work in you will go on completing it until the Day of Jesus Christ comes.
8 For God will testify for me how much I long for you all with the warm longing of Christ Jesus;

9 it is my prayer that your love for one another may grow more and more with the knowledge and complete understanding
10 that will help you to come to true discernment, so that you will be innocent and free of any trace of guilt when the Day of Christ comes,
11 entirely filled with the fruits of uprightness through Jesus Christ, for the glory and praise of God.

“The Word of the Lord”

 

Gospel Reading
LUKE 3:1-6
The Herald’s voice

1 In the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar's reign, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of the territories of Ituraea and Trachonitis, Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

2 and while the high-priesthood was held by Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah, in the desert.
3 He went through the whole Jordan area proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,
4 as it is written in the book of the sayings of Isaiah the prophet: A voice of one that cries in the desert: Prepare a way for the Lord, make his paths straight!
5 Let every valley be filled in, every mountain and hill be levelled, winding ways be straightened and rough roads made smooth,
6 and all humanity will see the salvation of God.

“The Gospel of the Lord”

 

 

 

St Joseph Church News

The next INFANT BAPTISM will only be held on the third Sunday of January 2013.

A big THANK YOU to all our benefactors who have generously contributed to our Parish Project.  MAY THE GOOD LORD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ABUNDANTLY!

 

BEC REFLECTION
14th December, 2012   Elayng Lee   16 Jln Permas 8/10         012-7939885

 

Penitential Service for South Johor Parishes

All Services are at 8:00 pm

17th December,  2012       
Church of the Immaculate Conception (CIC)

Skudai Catholic Centre (SCC)

18th December,  2012        
Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (SHC)

19th December,  2012        
Church of Christ the King, Kulai

20th December,  2012        
Church of St. Joseph, Plentong (SJC)
Church of St. Theresa,Masai (STC)

21st December,  2012        
Church of Holy Family Ulu Tiram
Church of St. Elizabeth, Kota Tinggi

 

Christmas Open House 2012

The Christmas Open House for the Melaka-Johor Diocese will be held on
Date: Tuesday, 25 December, 2012
Time: 11:00 am to 2:00 pm
Venue:  Majodi Centre, Plentong

All parishioners and friends are invited to join Bishop Paul Tan at the Diocesan Open House. There will be some light entertainment during the open house.

 

The Praise and Worship Group (Also known as 'The One Hour With The Lord') is organizing it's annual dinner and also to usher the festive season of Christmas.
Date: Friday, 28th December 2012
Venue: ON KEE RESTAURANT, 84-88 Jalan Permas 10.
Payment per person is RM50-00. All are welcome.
Those interested kindly contact Francis Soh at
HP 012-7654037

 

Mass Schedule for Christmas Eve & Christmas Year 2012

South Johor District Mass Schedule for Christmas Eve & Christmas Yr 2012
Church/ Chapel/ Centre	Christmas Eve 24th Dec, Mon	Christmas 25th Dec, Tue
Sacred Heart Cathedral, JB	8pm Mand, 11pm Eng	7:45am Eng, 9:45am Mand
Immaculate Conception, JB	8pm Eng, 10:30pm Tamil	8:30am Bahasa, 10:30am Mand
Skudai Catholic Centre	8pm Multilingual	-
St Joseph, Plentong	10pm Multilingual	10am Multilingual
St Teresa’s, Masai	7:30pm Tamil, 11pm Eng	9am Bahasa
Holy Family, Ulu Tiram	8pm Tamil, 10:30pm Eng/Mand	8:30am Mand, 10:30am Bahasa
Christ the King, Kulai	8pm Tamil, 10:30pm Eng/Bahasa	9am Mand
St Joseph, Bukit Batu	8pm Mand	-
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Pontian	-	-
Our Lady of Lourdes, Pekan Nenas	10:30pm Mand/Eng	-
St Elizabeth, Kota Tinggi	9pm Multilingual	9am Multilingual
Majodi Centre, Plentong	Vietnamese Mass 10pm	Vietnamese Mass 10am
Majodi Centre, Plentong		Bishop’s Chistmas Open House 25th Dec 2012 from 11am – 2pm