Saturday, December 02,
2017
First Sunday of Advent
– Year B
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass
First Reading
ISAIAH 63:16-17, 19
16 After all, you are our
Father. If Abraham will not own us, if Israel will not acknowledge us, you,
Yahweh, are our Father, 'Our Redeemer' is your name from of old.
17 Why, Yahweh, do you let
us wander from your ways and let our hearts grow too hard to fear you? Return,
for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
19 We have long been like
those you do not rule, people who do not bear your name. Oh, that you would
tear the heavens open and come down -- in your presence the mountains would
quake,
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 80:2-3, 15-16,
18-19
2 over Ephraim, Benjamin
and Manasseh; rouse your valour and come to our help.
3 God, bring us back, let
your face shine on us and we shall be safe.
15 protect what your own
hand has planted.
16 They have thrown it on
the fire like dung, the frown of your rebuke will destroy them.
17 May your hand protect
those at your side, the child of Adam you have strengthened for yourself!
18 Never again will we
turn away from you, give us life and we will call upon your name.
19 God Sabaoth, bring us
back, let your face shine on us and we shall be safe.
Second Reading
FIRST CORINTHIANS 1:3-9
3 Grace to you and peace
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I am continually
thanking God about you, for the grace of God which you have been given in
Christ Jesus;
5 in him you have been
richly endowed in every kind of utterance and knowledge;
6 so firmly has witness
to Christ taken root in you.
7 And so you are not
lacking in any gift as you wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed;
8 he will continue to
give you strength till the very end, so that you will be irreproachable on the
Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 You can rely on God,
who has called you to be partners with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MARK 13:33-37
33 'Be on your guard, stay
awake, because you never know when the time will come.
34 It is like a man
travelling abroad: he has gone from his home, and left his servants in charge,
each with his own work to do; and he has told the doorkeeper to stay awake.
35 So stay awake, because
you do not know when the master of the house is coming, evening, midnight,
cockcrow or dawn;
36 if he comes
unexpectedly, he must not find you asleep.
37 And what I am saying to
you I say to all: Stay awake!'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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