Saturday, December
08, 2018
Second Sunday of
Advent – Year C
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass
First Reading
BARUCH 5:1-9
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 126:1-2, 2-3,
4-5, 6
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
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
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”
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