Saturday, December 12,
2015
Third Sunday of
Advent – Year C
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass
First Reading
Zephaniah 3:14-18
14 Shout for joy,
daughter of Zion, Israel, shout aloud! Rejoice, exult with all your heart,
daughter of Jerusalem!
15 Yahweh has repealed
your sentence; he has turned your enemy away. Yahweh is king among you, Israel,
you have nothing more to fear.
16 When that Day comes,
the message for Jerusalem will be: Zion, have no fear, do not let your hands
fall limp.
17 Yahweh your God is
there with you, the warrior-Saviour. He will rejoice over you with happy song,
he will renew you by his love, he will dance with shouts of joy for you,
18 as on a day of
festival. I have taken away your misfortune, no longer need you bear the
disgrace of it.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS Isaiah 12:2-3,
4, 5-6
2 Look, he is the God
of my salvation: I shall have faith and not be afraid, for Yahweh is my strength
and my song, he has been my salvation.'
3 Joyfully you will
draw water from the springs of salvation
4 and, that day, you
will say, 'Praise Yahweh, invoke his name. Proclaim his deeds to the people,
declare his name sublime.
5 Sing of Yahweh, for
his works are majestic, make them known throughout the world.
6 Cry and shout for
joy, you who live in Zion, For the Holy One of Israel is among you in his
greatness.'
Second Reading
Philippians 4:4-7
4 Always be joyful,
then, in the Lord; I repeat, be joyful.
5 Let your good sense
be obvious to everybody. The Lord is near.
6 Never worry about
anything; but tell God all your desires of every kind in prayer and petition
shot through with gratitude,
7 and the peace of God
which is beyond our understanding will guard your hearts and your thoughts in
Christ Jesus.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
Luke 3:10-18
10 When all the people
asked him, 'What must we do, then?'
11 he answered, 'Anyone
who has two tunics must share with the one who has none, and anyone with
something to eat must do the same.'
12 There were tax
collectors, too, who came for baptism, and these said to him, 'Master, what
must we do?'
13 He said to them,
'Exact no more than the appointed rate.'
14 Some soldiers asked
him in their turn, 'What about us? What must we do?' He said to them, 'No
intimidation! No extortion! Be content with your pay!'
15 A feeling of
expectancy had grown among the people, who were beginning to wonder whether
John might be the Christ,
16 so John declared
before them all, 'I baptise you with water, but someone is coming, who is more
powerful than me, and I am not fit to undo the strap of his sandals; he will
baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
17 His winnowing-fan is
in his hand, to clear his threshing-floor and to gather the wheat into his
barn; but the chaff he will burn in a fire that will never go out.'
18 And he proclaimed the
good news to the people with many other exhortations too.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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