Saturday, December 07, 2013
Second Sunday of
Advent
5:30 pm Novena to Our Lady
6:00 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
ISAIAH 11:1-10
1 A shoot will spring from the stock of Jesse,
a new shoot will grow from his roots.
2 On him will rest the spirit of Yahweh, the
spirit of wisdom and insight, the spirit of counsel and power, the spirit of
knowledge and fear of Yahweh:
3 his inspiration will lie in fearing Yahweh.
His judgement will not be by appearances. his verdict not given on hearsay.
4 He will judge the weak with integrity and
give fair sentence for the humblest in the land. He will strike the country
with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips bring death to the
wicked.
5 Uprightness will be the belt around his
waist, and constancy the belt about his hips.
6 The wolf will live with the lamb, the panther
lie down with the kid, calf, lion and fat-stock beast together, with a little
boy to lead them.
7 The cow and the bear will graze, their young
will lie down together. The lion will eat hay like the ox.
8 The infant will play over the den of the
adder; the baby will put his hand into the viper's lair.
9 No hurt, no harm will be done on all my holy
mountain, for the country will be full of knowledge of Yahweh as the waters
cover the sea.
10 That day, the root of Jesse, standing as a
signal for the peoples, will be sought out by the nations and its home will be
glorious.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 72:1-2, 7-8,
12-13, 17
1 [Of Solomon] God, endow the king with your
own fair judgement, the son of the king with your own saving justice,
2 that he may rule your people with justice,
and your poor with fair judgement.
7 In his days uprightness shall flourish, and
peace in plenty till the moon is no more.
8 His empire shall stretch from sea to sea,
from the river to the limits of the earth.
12 For he rescues the needy who calls to him,
and the poor who has no one to help.
13 He has pity on the weak and the needy, and
saves the needy from death.
17 May his name be blessed for ever, and endure
in the sight of the sun. In him shall be blessed every race in the world, and
all nations call him blessed.
Second Reading
ROMANS 15:4-9
4 And all these things which were written so
long ago were written so that we, learning perseverance and the encouragement
which the scriptures give, should have hope.
5 Now the God of perseverance and encouragement
give you all the same purpose, following the example of Christ Jesus,
6 so that you may together give glory to the
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one heart.
7 Accept one another, then, for the sake of
God's glory, as Christ accepted you.
8 I tell you that Christ's work was to serve
the circumcised, fulfilling the truthfulness of God by carrying out the
promises made to the fathers,
9 and his work was also for the gentiles, so
that they should give glory to God for his faithful love; as scripture says:
For this I shall praise you among the nations and sing praise to your name.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 3:1-12
1 In due course John the Baptist appeared; he
proclaimed this message in the desert of Judaea,
2 'Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven is close
at hand.'
3 This was the man spoken of by the prophet
Isaiah when he said: A voice of one that cries in the desert, 'Prepare a way
for the Lord, make his paths straight.'
4 This man John wore a garment made of
camel-hair with a leather loin-cloth round his waist, and his food was locusts
and wild honey.
5 Then Jerusalem and all Judaea and the whole
Jordan district made their way to him,
6 and as they were baptised by him in the river
Jordan they confessed their sins.
7 But when he saw a number of Pharisees and
Sadducees coming for baptism he said to them, 'Brood of vipers, who warned you
to flee from the coming retribution?
8 Produce fruit in
keeping with repentance,
9 and do not presume to tell yourselves,
"We have Abraham as our father," because, I tell you, God can raise children
for Abraham from these stones.
10 Even now the axe is
being laid to the root of the trees, so that any tree failing to produce good
fruit will be cut down and thrown on the fire.
11 I baptise you in water for repentance, but
the one who comes after me is more powerful than I, and I am not fit to carry
his sandals; he will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
12 His winnowing-fan is in his hand; he will
clear his threshing-floor and gather his wheat into his barn; but the chaff he
will burn in a fire that will never go out.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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