Readings for 20 December
Monday, December 20th. Daily & Sunday Mass, Daily Rosary & Stations of the Cross
Readings for 20 December
20 December 2021
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
“Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son,
and you shall name him Jesus.”
DAILY GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS
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Readings for 20 December
20 December 2021
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ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things and I desire You in my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,
Come at least spiritually into my heart.
As though You were already there,
I embrace You and unite myself wholly to You;
Permit not that I should ever be separated from You. Amen
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Readings for 20 December
20 December 2021
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Readings for 20 December
20 December 2021
Book of Isaiah 7,10-14.
The LORD spoke to Ahaz, saying:
Ask for a sign from the LORD, your God; let it be deep as the nether world, or high as the sky!
But Ahaz answered, “I will not ask! I will not tempt the LORD!”
Then he said: Listen, O house of David! Is it not enough for you to weary men, must you also weary my God?
Therefore the Lord himself will give you this sign: the virgin shall be with child, and bear a son, and shall name him Emmanuel.
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Readings for 20 December
20 December 2021
Psalms 24(23),1-2.3-4ab.5-6.
The LORD’s are the earth and its fullness;
the world and those who dwell in it.
For he founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the rivers.
Who can ascend the mountain of the LORD?
or who may stand in his holy place?
One whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean,
who desires not what is vain.
He shall receive a blessing from the LORD,
a reward from God his savior.
Such is the race that seeks for him,
that seeks the face of the God of Jacob.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Readings for 20 December
20 December 2021
Saint of the day
St. Dominic of Silos
ABBOT
(11TH CENTURY)
SAINTS OF THE DAY
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You shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
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Let me sing of the LORD,
“He has been good to me.”
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“I am with you always, until
the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20.
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“This is my commandment:
love one another as I love you.”
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FRANCIS XAVIER SAMSEN
MERRY CHRISTMAS
TO ALL
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Sunday, December 19th. Daily & Sunday Mass, Daily Rosary & Stations of the Cross
Fourth Sunday of Advent
19 December 2021
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
“Most blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb.”
DAILY GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS
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19 December 2021
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Choir Cantor & Organist, Washington, D.C.
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ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things and I desire You in my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,
Come at least spiritually into my heart.
As though You were already there,
I embrace You and unite myself wholly to You;
Permit not that I should ever be separated from You. Amen.
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Fourth Sunday of Advent
19 December 2021
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19 December 2021
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Fourth Sunday of Advent
19 December 2021
Book of Micah 5,1-4a.
The LORD says : You, Bethlehem-Ephrathah, too small to be among the clans of Judah, From you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel ; Whose origin is from of old, from ancient times.
(Therefore the Lord will give them up, until the time when she who is to give birth has borne, And the rest of his brethren shall return to the children of Israel.)
He shall stand firm and shepherd his flock by the strength of the LORD, in the majestic name of the LORD, his God; And they shall remain, for now his greatness shall reach to the ends of the earth;
he shall be peace.
Letter to the Hebrews 10,5-10.
For this reason, when he came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me;
holocausts and sin offerings you took no delight in.
Then I said, ‘As is written of me in the scroll, Behold, I come to do your will, O God.'”
First he says, “Sacrifices and offerings, holocausts and sin offerings, you neither desired nor delighted in.” These are offered according to the law.
Then he says, “Behold, I come to do your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second.
By this “will,” we have been consecrated through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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Fourth Sunday of Advent
19 December 2021
Psalms 80(79),2ac.3b.15-16.18-19.
O shepherd of Israel, hearken.
from your throne upon the cherubim, shine forth.
Rouse your power.
Once again, O LORD of hosts,
look down from heaven, and see:
take care of this vine,
and protect what your right hand has planted
the son of man whom you yourself made strong.
May your help be with the man of your right hand,
with the son of man whom you yourself made strong.
Then we will no more withdraw from you;
give us new life, and we will call upon your name.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Fourth Sunday of Advent
19 December 2021
Saints of the day
Bl. Urban V
POPE
(1310-1370)
SAINTS OF THE DAY
St. Nemesion
MARTYR
(† 250)
IMAGE: N/A
SAINTS OF THE DAY
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Fourth Sunday of Advent
Advent wreaths are used to mark
the passage of the season,
Advent (from the Latin word adventus meaning “coming”) is a season observed in many Western Christian churches, a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus at Christmas. It is the beginning of the Western liturgical year and commences on Advent Sunday, called Levavi. The Eastern churches’ equivalent of Advent is called the Nativity Fast, but it differs both in length and observances and does not begin the church year, which starts instead on September 1.
The progression of the season may be marked with an Advent calendar, a practice introduced by German Lutherans. At least in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran and Methodist calendars, Advent starts on the fourth Sunday before December 25, the Sunday from November 27 to December 3 inclusive.
Latin adventus is the translation of the Greek word parousia, commonly used in reference to the Second Coming of Christ. For Christians, the season of Advent serves as a reminder both of the original waiting that was done by the Hebrews for the birth of their Messiah as well as the waiting of Christians for Christ’s return. This is the fourth week of ADVENT.
The Fourth Sunday of Advent 
The first reading is taken from 2 Samuel 7:1-5; 8-11;16 and refers to when David was anointed king in Hebron by all the tribes of Israel and Judah and his first step was to capture Jerusalem from the Jebusites and make it the political capital of his kingdom.
The second reading is from the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans 26:25-27 where he introduces himself to the Christians in Rome and he gives an incomplete synthesis of his theology. His words remind us to give glory to God this Christmas and always, for the marvelous things he has done for us.
The Gospel is from Luke 1:26-38. At the moment our Lady said: “be it done to me according to thy word” the most stupendous event that ever happened, or ever could happen on earth, took place on this planet of ours. The Son of God took on human nature in the womb of the Blessed Virgin. We are familiar with this story from childhood. We often say the Angelus in which this tremendous act of God’s love is described. Although familiarity, in this case, does not breed contempt, it does help to blunt the real impact on our minds of such an extraordinary occurrence. If God had created a very special child, and made him into an outstanding saint, so that he could intercede with God for us, this would be a great act of love for us on God’s part. Or, if he had sent an angel from heaven in human form, to teach us all about God and to help us to lead holy lives, this would deserve our deepest gratitude. But neither a saintly man nor a holy angel could do for us all that God wanted. No man or angel could make us adopted sons of God and heirs of heaven. It was necessary, in God’s plan for us, that his divine Son should become man, should share our humanity so that we could share his divinity.
Could infinite love have gone any further? Our creation, the fact that we exist as human beings on earth, is a great gift to us on the part of God. Of what value could eighty, a hundred, even seven hundred years of a continuously happy life on this earth be for us if we learned that we had to depart life forever one day? In a world tormented by sin and its evil effects our normal span of life would be less satisfying. However, when God created us, he so planned that our stay here would be but a stage, a stepping stone in fact, toward our everlasting home. We are well aware indeed of the lengths to which God’s love has gone in order to make us his children and heirs to his kingdom. Are we, however, grateful to him for the love he has shown us? Are we honestly and sincerely trying to make ourselves worthy of the great future he has in store for us?
Today is a suitable occasion to look right into our hearts, to see how we stand with God. During the week we shall be keeping the feast of Christmas. The Baby in the manger will remind us of what God has done and is still doing for us. What are we doing in return? Have we shown our gratitude by living as true followers of Christ? If most of us must answer: “no,” this is the time to change our course and return to the right road once more. God is asking this of us today. Shall our answer be: “behold here I am Lord, your humble and grateful servant, let it be done to me according to your word”?
Excerpted from The Sunday Readings by Fr. Kevin O’Sullivan, O.F.M.
From the Catholic Culture
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You shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
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Let me sing of the LORD,
“He has been good to me.”
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“I am with you always, until
the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20.
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“This is my commandment:
love one another as I love you.”
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FRANCIS XAVIER SAMSEN
MERRY CHRISTMAS
TO ALL
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Saturday, December 18th. Daily & Sunday Mass, Daily Rosary & Stations of the Cross
Readings for 18 December
18 December 2021
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
“Joseph, son of David,
do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home.”
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Readings for 18 December
18 December 2021
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ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things and I desire You in my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,
Come at least spiritually into my heart.
As though You were already there,
I embrace You and unite myself wholly to You;
Permit not that I should ever be separated from You. Amen
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Readings for 18 December
18 December 2021
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Readings for 18 December
18 December 2021
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Readings for 18 December
18 December 2021
Book of Jeremiah 23,5-8.
Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will raise up a righteous shoot to David; as king he shall reign and govern wisely, he shall do what is just and right in the land.
In his days Judah shall be saved, Israel shall dwell in security. This is the name they give him: “The LORD our justice.”
Therefore, the days will come, says the LORD, when they shall no longer say, “As the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt”;
but rather, “As the LORD lives, who brought the descendants of the house of Israel up from the land of the north”–and from all the lands to which I banished them; they shall again live on their own land.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Readings for 18 December
18 December 2021
Psalms 72(71),1-2.12-13.18-19.
O God, with your judgment endow the king,
and with your justice, the king’s son;
He shall govern your people with justice
and your afflicted ones with judgment.
For he shall rescue the poor when he cries out,
And the afflicted when he has no one to help him.
He shall have pity for the lowly and the poor;
The lives of the poor he shall save.
Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,
Who alone does wondrous deeds.
And blessed forever be his glorious name;
May the whole earth be filled with his glory.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Readings for 18 December
18 December 2021
Saints of the day
Bl. Giulia Nemesia Valle
(1847-1916)
SAINTS OF THE DAY
St. Gatian
BISHOP
(3RD CENTURY)
IMAGE: N/A
SAINTS OF THE DAY
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You shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
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Let me sing of the LORD,
“He has been good to me.”
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“I am with you always, until
the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20.
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“This is my commandment:
love one another as I love you.”
_______________________________
FRANCIS XAVIER SAMSEN
MERRY CHRISTMAS
TO ALL
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Friday, December 17th. Daily & Sunday Mass, Daily Rosary & Stations of the Cross
Readings for 17 December
17 December 2021
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
The Book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ,
the son of David, the son of Abraham.
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Readings for 17 December
17 December 2021
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ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things and I desire You in my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,
Come at least spiritually into my heart.
As though You were already there,
I embrace You and unite myself wholly to You;
Permit not that I should ever be separated from You. Amen
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Readings for 17 December
17 December 2021
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Readings for 17 December
17 December 2021
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Readings for 17 December
17 December 2021
Book of Genesis 49,2.8-10.
Jacob called his sons and said to them: “Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob, listen to Israel, your father.
“You, Judah, shall your brothers praise –your hand on the neck of your enemies; the sons of your father shall bow down to you.
Judah, like a lion’s whelp, you have grown up on prey, my son. He crouches like a lion recumbent, the king of beasts–who would dare rouse him?
The scepter shall never depart from Judah, or the mace from between his legs, While tribute is brought to him, and he receives the people’s homage.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Readings for 17 December
17 December 2021
Psalms 72(71),1-2.3-4ab.7-8.17.
O God, with your judgment endow the king,
and with your justice, the king’s son;
He shall govern your people with justice
and your afflicted ones with judgment.
The mountains shall yield peace for the people,
and the hills justice.
He shall defend the afflicted among the people,
Save the children of the poor.
Justice shall flower in his days,
and profound peace, till the moon be no more.
May he rule from sea to sea,
and from the River to the ends of the earth.
May his name be blessed forever;
As long as the sun his name shall remain.
In him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed;
All the nations shall proclaim his happiness.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Readings for 17 December
17 December 2021
Saints of the day
St. Josep Manyanet y Vives
PRIEST AND FOUNDER
(† 1901)
SAINTS OF THE DAY
St. Olympias
WIDOW
(† C. 410)
SAINTS OF THE DAY
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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You shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
_______________________________________________________
Let me sing of the LORD,
“He has been good to me.”
_____________________________________
“I am with you always, until
the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20.
_______________________________________
“This is my commandment:
love one another as I love you.”
_______________________________
FRANCIS XAVIER SAMSEN
MERRY CHRISTMAS
TO ALL
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Thursday, December 16th. Daily & Sunday Mass, Daily Rosary & Stations of the Cross
Thursday of the Third week of Advent
16 December 2021
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
‘Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,
he will prepare your way before you.’
DAILY GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS
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Thursday of the Third week of Advent
16 December 2021
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ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things and I desire You in my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,
Come at least spiritually into my heart.
As though You were already there,
I embrace You and unite myself wholly to You;
Permit not that I should ever be separated from You. Amen
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Thursday of the Third week of Advent
16 December 2021
Daily Rosary
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Thursday of the Third week of Advent
16 December 2021
Stations of the cross
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Thursday of the Third week of Advent
16 December 2021
Book of Isaiah 54,1-10.
Raise a glad cry, you barren one who did not bear, break forth in jubilant song, you who were not in labor, For more numerous are the children of the deserted wife than the children of her who has a husband, says the LORD.
Enlarge the space for your tent, spread out your tent cloths unsparingly; lengthen your ropes and make firm your stakes.
For you shall spread abroad to the right and to the left; Your descendants shall dispossess the nations and shall people the desolate cities.
Fear not, you shall not be put to shame; you need not blush, for you shall not be disgraced. The shame of your youth you shall forget, the reproach of your widowhood no longer remember.
For he who has become your husband is your Maker; his name is the LORD of hosts; Your redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, called God of all the earth.
The LORD calls you back, like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, A wife married in youth and then cast off, says your God.
For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with great tenderness I will take you back.
In an outburst of wrath, for a moment I hid my face from you; But with enduring love I take pity on you, says the LORD, your redeemer.
This is for me like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah should never again deluge the earth; So I have sworn not to be angry with you, or to rebuke you.
Though the mountains leave their place and the hills be shaken, My love shall never leave you nor my covenant of peace be shaken, says the LORD, who has mercy on you.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Thursday of the Third week of Advent
16 December 2021
Psalms 30(29),2.4.5-6.11-12a.13b.
I will extol you, O LORD, for you drew me clear
and did not let my enemies rejoice over me.
O LORD, you brought me up from the nether world;
you preserved me from among those going down into the pit.
Sing praise to the LORD, you his faithful ones,
and give thanks to his holy name.
For his anger lasts but a moment;
a lifetime, his good will.
At nightfall, weeping enters in,
but with the dawn, rejoicing.
Hear, O LORD, and have pity on me;
O LORD, be my helper.”
You changed my mourning into dancing;
O LORD, my God, forever will I give you thanks.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Thursday of the Third week of Advent
16 December 2021
Saint of the day
St. Eusebius
BISHOP
(† C. 371)
SAINTS OF THE DAY
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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You shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
_______________________________________________________
Let me sing of the LORD,
“He has been good to me.”
_____________________________________
“I am with you always, until
the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20.
_______________________________________
“This is my commandment:
love one another as I love you.”
_______________________________
FRANCIS XAVIER SAMSEN
HAPPY JESUS TO ALL
FROM
FRANCIS XAVIER, SAMSEN
THAILAND
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
TO ALL
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Wednesday, December 15th. Daily & Sunday Mass, Daily Rosary & Stations of the Cross
Wednesday of the Third week of Advent
15 December 2021
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
“Are you the one who is to come,
or should we look for another?”
DAILY GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS
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Wednesday of the Third week of Advent
15 December 2021
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ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things and I desire You in my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,
Come at least spiritually into my heart.
As though You were already there,
I embrace You and unite myself wholly to You;
Permit not that I should ever be separated from You. Amen
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Wednesday of the Third week of Advent
15 December 2021
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Wednesday of the Third week of Advent
15 December 2021
Stations of the cross
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Wednesday of the Third week of Advent
15 December 2021
Book of Isaiah 45,6b-8.18.21b-25.
I am the LORD, there is no other;
I form the light, and create the darkness, I make well-being and create woe; I, the LORD, do all these things.
Let justice descend, O heavens, like dew from above, like gentle rain let the skies drop it down. Let the earth open and salvation bud forth; let justice also spring up! I, the LORD, have created this.
For thus says the LORD, The creator of the heavens, who is God, The designer and maker of the earth who established it, Not creating it to be a waste, but designing it to be lived in: I am the LORD, and there is no other.
Come here and declare in counsel together: Who announced this from the beginning and foretold it from of old? Was it not I, the LORD, besides whom there is no other God? There is no just and saving God but me.
Turn to me and be safe, all you ends of the earth, for I am God; there is no other!
By myself I swear, uttering my just decree and my unalterable word: To me every knee shall bend; by me every tongue shall swear,
Saying, “Only in the LORD are just deeds and power. Before him in shame shall come all who vent their anger against him.
In the LORD shall be the vindication and the glory of all the descendants of Israel.”
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Wednesday of the Third week of Advent
15 December 2021
Psalms 85(84),9ab-10.11-12.13-14.
I will hear what God proclaims;
the LORD –for he proclaims peace to his people.
Near indeed is his salvation to those who fear him,
glory dwelling in our land.
Kindness and truth shall meet;
justice and peace shall kiss.
Truth shall spring out of the earth,
and justice shall look down from heaven.
The LORD himself will give his benefits;
our land shall yield its increase.
Justice shall walk before him,
and salvation, along the way of his steps.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Wednesday of the Third week of Advent
15 December 2021
Saints of the day
St. Virginia Centurione Bracelli
(1587-1651)
SAINTS OF THE DAY
St. Mesmin
(† 520)
IMAGE: N/A
SAINTS OF THE DAY
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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You shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
_______________________________________________________
Let me sing of the LORD,
“He has been good to me.”
_____________________________________
“I am with you always, until
the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20.
_______________________________________
“This is my commandment:
love one another as I love you.”
_______________________________
FRANCIS XAVIER SAMSEN
HAPPY JESUS TO ALL
FROM
FRANCIS XAVIER, SAMSEN
THAILAND
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
TO ALL
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Tuesday, December 14th. Daily & Sunday Mass, Daily Rosary & Stations of the Cross
Tuesday of the Third week of Advent
14 December 2021
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
“Amen, I say to you, tax collectors and prostitutes
are entering the kingdom of God before you.
DAILY GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS
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For
Celebrates Daily TV Mass from Loretto Abbey in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
by
Fr. John Bertao
Catholic Mass Today | Daily TV Mass,
Tuesday of the Third week of Advent
14 December 2021
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ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things and I desire You in my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,
Come at least spiritually into my heart.
As though You were already there,
I embrace You and unite myself wholly to You;
Permit not that I should ever be separated from You. Amen
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Tuesday of the Third week of Advent
14 December 2021
Daily Rosary
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DAILY ROSARY
with
Archbishop Robert Carlson
and
Seminarians from Kendrick-Glennon Seminary
recorded at
Saint Vincent De Paul Chapel in Saint Louis’ Cardinal Rigali Center.
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Tuesday of the Third week of Advent
14 December 2021
Stations of the cross
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STATIONS OF THE CROSS
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Bishop Robert Reed
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Tuesday of the Third week of Advent
14 December 2021
Book of Zephaniah 3,1-2.9-13.
Thus says the Lord: “Woe to the city, rebellious and polluted, to the tyrannical city!
She hears no voice, accepts no correction; In the LORD she has not trusted, to her God she has not drawn near.
For then I will change and purify the lips of the peoples, That they all may call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one accord;
From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia and as far as the recesses of the North, they shall bring me offerings.
On that day You need not be ashamed of all your deeds, your rebellious actions against me; For then will I remove from your midst the proud braggarts, And you shall no longer exalt yourself on my holy mountain.
But I will leave as a remnant in your midst a people humble and lowly, Who shall take refuge in the name of the LORD;
the remnant of Israel. They shall do no wrong and speak no lies; Nor shall there be found in their mouths a deceitful tongue; They shall pasture and couch their flocks with none to disturb them.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Tuesday of the Third week of Advent
14 December 2021
Psalms 34(33),2-3.6-7.17-18.19.23.
I will bless the LORD at all times;
his praise shall be ever in my mouth.
Let my soul glory in the LORD;
the lowly will hear me and be glad.
Look to him that you may be radiant with joy,
and your faces may not blush with shame.
When the poor one called out, the LORD heard,
and from all his distress he saved him.
The LORD confronts the evildoers,
to destroy remembrance of them from the earth.
When the just cry out, the LORD hears them,
and from all their distress he rescues them.
The LORD is close to the brokenhearted;
and those who are crushed in spirit he saves.
The LORD redeems the lives of his servants;
no one incurs guilt who takes refuge in him.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Tuesday of the Third week of Advent
14 December 2021
Saints of the day
St. John of the Cross
DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH
(1542-1591)
SAINTS OF THE DAY
SAINT NICASIUS
Archbishop
and his Companions
Martyrs
(5th century)
Image: N/A
SAINTS OF THE DAY
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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You shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
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Let me sing of the LORD,
“He has been good to me.”
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“I am with you always, until
the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20.
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“This is my commandment:
love one another as I love you.”
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FRANCIS XAVIER SAMSEN
HAPPY JESUS TO ALL
FROM
FRANCIS XAVIER, SAMSEN
THAILAND
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
TO ALL
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Moday, December 13th. Daily & Sunday Mass, Daily Rosary & Stations of the Cross
Monday of the Third week of Advent
13 December 2021
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
“By what authority are you doing these things?
And who gave you this authority?”
DAILY GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS
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For
Celebrates Daily TV Mass from Loretto Abbey in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
by
Fr. Dan Donovan
Catholic Mass Today | Daily TV Mass,
Monday of the Third week of Advent
13 December 2021
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ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things and I desire You in my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,
Come at least spiritually into my heart.
As though You were already there,
I embrace You and unite myself wholly to You;
Permit not that I should ever be separated from You. Amen
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Monday of the Third week of Advent
13 December 2021
Daily Rosary
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for
DAILY ROSARY
with
Archbishop Robert Carlson
and
Seminarians from Kendrick-Glennon Seminary recorded
at
Saint Vincent De Paul Chapel in Saint Louis’ Cardinal Rigali Center.
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Monday of the Third week of Advent
13 December 2021
Stations of the cross
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STATIONS OF THE CROSS
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Monday of the Third week of Advent
13 December 2021
Book of Numbers 24,2-7.15-17a.
When Balaam raised his eyes and saw Israel encamped, tribe by tribe, the spirit of God came upon him,
and he gave voice to his oracle: The utterance of Balaam, son of Beor, the utterance of the man whose eye is true,
The utterance of one who hears what God says, and knows what the Most High knows, Of one who sees what the Almighty sees, enraptured, and with eyes unveiled:
How goodly are your tents, O Jacob; your encampments, O Israel!
They are like gardens beside a stream, like the cedars planted by the LORD.
His wells shall yield free-flowing waters, he shall have the sea within reach; His king shall rise higher than. . . . and his royalty shall be exalted.
Then Balaam gave voice to his oracle: The utterance of Balaam, son of Beor, the utterance of the man whose eye is true,
The utterance of one who hears what God says, and knows what the Most High knows, Of one who sees what the Almighty sees, enraptured and with eyes unveiled.
I see him, though not now; I behold him, though not near: A star shall advance from Jacob, and a staff shall rise from Israel.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Monday of the Third week of Advent
13 December 2021
Psalms 25(24),4-5ab.6.7bc.8-9.
Your ways, O LORD, make known to me;
teach me your paths,
guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my savior.
Remember that your compassion, O LORD,
and your love are from of old.
In your kindness remember me,
because of your goodness, O LORD.
Good and upright is the LORD;
thus he shows sinners the way.
He guides the humble to justice,
he teaches the humble his way.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Monday of the Third week of Advent
13 December 2021
Saint of the day
St. Lucy
VIRGIN AND MARTYR
(† C. 304)
SAINTS OF THE DAY
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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You shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
_______________________________________________________
Let me sing of the LORD,
“He has been good to me.”
_____________________________________
“I am with you always, until
the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20.
_______________________________________
“This is my commandment:
love one another as I love you.”
_______________________________
FRANCIS XAVIER SAMSEN
HAPPY JESUS TO ALL
FROM
FRANCIS XAVIER, SAMSEN
THAILAND
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
TO ALL
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Sunday, December 12th. Daily & Sunday Mass, Daily Rosary & Stations of the Cross
Third Sunday of Advent
12 December 2021
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
“I am baptizing you with water, but one mightier than I is coming.
I am not worthy to loosen the thongs of his sandals”
DAILY GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS
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The Basilica of the National Shrine
YOUTUBE
of
The Sunday Mass
Third Sunday of Advent
12 December 2021
Celebrant & Homilist: Rev Richard Mullins
Choir: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Choir Cantor & Organist, Washington, D.C.
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ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things and I desire You in my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,
Come at least spiritually into my heart.
As though You were already there,
I embrace You and unite myself wholly to You;
Permit not that I should ever be separated from You. Amen.
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Third Sunday of Advent
12 December 2021
Daily Rosary
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DAILY ROSARY
with
Archbishop Robert Carlson
and
Seminarians from Kendrick-Glennon Seminary recorded
at
Saint Vincent De Paul Chapel in Saint Louis’ Cardinal Rigali Center.
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Third Sunday of Advent
12 December 2021
Stations of the cross
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STATIONS OF THE CROSS
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Third Sunday of Advent
12 December 2021
Book of Zephaniah 3,14-18a.
Shout for joy, O daughter Zion! sing joyfully, O Israel! Be glad and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem!
The LORD has removed the judgment against you, he has turned away your enemies; The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst, you have no further misfortune to fear.
On that day, it shall be said to Jerusalem: Fear not, O Zion, be not discouraged!
The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a mighty savior; He will rejoice over you with gladness, and renew you in his love, He will sing joyfully because of you,
as one sings at festivals.
Letter to the Philippians 4,4-7.
Brothers and sisters: Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again: rejoice!
Your kindness should be known to all. The Lord is near.
Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God.
Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Third Sunday of Advent
12 December 2021
Book of Isaiah 12,2-3.4bcd.5-6.
God indeed is my savior;
I am confident and unafraid.
My strength and my courage is the LORD,
and he has been my savior.
With joy you will draw water
at the fountain of salvation.
Give thanks to the LORD, acclaim his name;
among the nations make known his deeds,
proclaim how exalted is his name.
Sing praise to the LORD for his glorious achievement;
let this be known throughout all the earth.
Shout with exultation, O city of Zion,
for great in your midst
is the Holy One of Israel!
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Third Sunday of Advent
12 December 2021
Saints of the day
St. Valery
ABBOT
(565-622)
SAINTS OF THE DAY
St. Finian
BISHOP
(† C. 549)
SAINTS OF THE DAY
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Third Sunday of Advent
12 December 2021
Gaudete Sunday
Historically the pink or rose candle is called the Gaudete candle, from the Latin word meaning “rejoice.” The third Sunday of Advent is also known by some Christians as Gaudete Sunday. … It is an important reminder in the Advent season of preparation, of the joy that is ours in knowing the power of love in our lives.
Gaudete Sunday (/ɡaʊˈdɛtɛ/ gow-DET-eh) is the third Sunday of Advent in the liturgical calendar of Western Christianity, including the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, Lutheran Churches, and other mainline Protestant churches. It can fall on any date from 11 December to 17 December.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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You shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
_______________________________________________________
Let me sing of the LORD,
“He has been good to me.”
_____________________________________
“I am with you always, until
the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20.
_______________________________________
“This is my commandment:
love one another as I love you.”
_______________________________
FRANCIS XAVIER SAMSEN
HAPPY JESUS TO ALL
FROM
FRANCIS XAVIER, SAMSEN
THAILAND
___________________________________________________
MERRY CHRISTMAS
TO ALL
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Saturday, December 11th. Daily & Sunday Mass, Daily Rosary & Stations of the Cross
Saturday of the Second week of Advent
11 December 2021
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
Jesus said in reply,
“Elijah will indeed come and restore all things;”
DAILY GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS
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Celebrates Daily TV Mass from Loretto Abbey in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
by
Fr. Roshan Loy D’Souza, CSC
Catholic Mass Today | Daily TV Mass,
Saturday of the Second week of Advent
11 December 2021
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ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things and I desire You in my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,
Come at least spiritually into my heart.
As though You were already there,
I embrace You and unite myself wholly to You;
Permit not that I should ever be separated from You. Amen
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Saturday of the Second week of Advent
11 December 2021
Daily Rosary
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for
DAILY ROSARY
with
Archbishop Robert Carlson
and
Seminarians from Kendrick-Glennon Seminary recorded
at
Saint Vincent De Paul Chapel in Saint Louis’ Cardinal Rigali Center.
________________________________________
Saturday of the Second week of Advent
11 December 2021
Stations of the cross
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STATIONS OF THE CROSS
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Saturday of the Second week of Advent
11 December 2021
Book of Sirach 48,1-4.9-11.
In those days, like a fire there appeared the prophet Elijah whose words were as a flaming furnace.
Their staff of bread he shattered, in his zeal he reduced them to straits;
By God’s word he shut up the heavens and three times brought down fire.
How awesome are you, Elijah! Whose glory is equal to yours?
You were taken aloft in a whirlwind, in a chariot with fiery horses.
You are destined, it is written, in time to come to put an end to wrath before the day of the LORD, To turn back the hearts of fathers toward their sons, and to reestablish the tribes of Jacob.
Blessed is he who shall have seen you and who falls asleep in your friendship.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Saturday of the Second week of Advent
11 December 2021
Psalms 80(79),2ac.3b.15-16.18-19.
O shepherd of Israel, hearken.
from your throne upon the cherubim, shine forth.
Rouse your power.
Once again, O LORD of hosts,
look down from heaven, and see:
take care of this vine,
and protect what your right hand has planted
the son of man whom you yourself made strong.
May your help be with the man of your right hand,
with the son of man whom you yourself made strong.
Then we will no more withdraw from you;
give us new life, and we will call upon your name.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Saturday of the Second week of Advent
11 December 2021
Saints of the day
St. María Maravillas de Jesús
(1891-1974)
SAINTS OF THE DAY
St. Damasus I
POPE
(† 384)
SAINTS OF THE DAY
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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You shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
_______________________________________________________
Let me sing of the LORD,
“He has been good to me.”
_____________________________________
“I am with you always, until
the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20.
_______________________________________
“This is my commandment:
love one another as I love you.”
_______________________________
FRANCIS XAVIER SAMSEN
HAPPY JESUS TO ALL
FROM
FRANCIS XAVIER, SAMSEN
THAILAND
___________________________________________________
MERRY CHRISTMAS
TO ALL
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Friday, December 10th. Daily & Sunday Mass, Daily Rosary & Stations of the Cross
Friday of the Second week of Advent
10 December 2021
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance,
we sang a dirge but you did not mourn.’
DAILY GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS
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For
Celebrates Daily TV Mass from Loretto Abbey in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
by
Father Michael Coutts S.J.
Catholic Mass Today | Daily TV Mass,
Friday of the Second week of Advent
10 December 2021
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ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things and I desire You in my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,
Come at least spiritually into my heart.
As though You were already there,
I embrace You and unite myself wholly to You;
Permit not that I should ever be separated from You. Amen
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Friday of the Second week of Advent
10 December 2021
Daily Rosary
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for
DAILY ROSARY
with
Archbishop Robert Carlson
and
Seminarians from Kendrick-Glennon Seminary recorded
at
Saint Vincent De Paul Chapel in Saint Louis’ Cardinal Rigali Center.
______________________________________________________________________
Friday of the Second week of Advent
10 December 2021
Stations of the cross
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STATIONS OF THE CROSS
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Friday of the Second week of Advent
10 December 2021
Book of Isaiah 48,17-19.
Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I, the LORD, your God, teach you what is for your good, and lead you on the way you should go.
If you would hearken to my commandments, your prosperity would be like a river, and your vindication like the waves of the sea;
Your descendants would be like the sand, and those born of your stock like its grains, Their name never cut off or blotted out from my presence.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Friday of the Second week of Advent
10 December 2021
Psalms 1,1-2.3.4.6.
Blessed the man who follows not
the counsel of the wicked
Nor walks in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the company of the insolent,
But delights in the law of the LORD
and meditates on his law day and night.
He is like a tree
planted near running water,
that yields its fruit in due season,
and whose leaves never fade.
Whatever he does, prospers.
Not so, the wicked, not so;
they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
For the LORD watches over the way of the just,
but the way of the wicked vanishes.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Friday of the Second week of Advent
10 December 2021
Saint of the day
St. Eulalia
VIRGIN AND MARTYR
(† 304)
SAINTS OF THE DAY
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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You shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
_______________________________________________________
Let me sing of the LORD,
“He has been good to me.”
_____________________________________
“I am with you always, until
the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20.
_______________________________________
“This is my commandment:
love one another as I love you.”
_______________________________
FRANCIS XAVIER SAMSEN
HAPPY JESUS TO ALL
FROM
FRANCIS XAVIER, SAMSEN
THAILAND
___________________________________________________
MERRY CHRISTMAS
TO ALL
__________________________________________________
Thursday, December 9th. Daily & Sunday Mass, Daily Rosary & Stations of the Cross
Thursday of the Second week of Advent
9 December 2021
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
“Amen, I say to you, among those born of women
there has been none greater than John the Baptist”
DAILY GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS
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For
Celebrates Daily TV Mass from Loretto Abbey in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
by
Fr. Darren Dias, OP
Catholic Mass Today | Daily TV Mass,
Thursday of the Second week of Advent
9 December 2021
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ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things and I desire You in my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,
Come at least spiritually into my heart.
As though You were already there,
I embrace You and unite myself wholly to You;
Permit not that I should ever be separated from You. Amen
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Thursday of the Second week of Advent
9 December 2021
Daily Rosary
THANK YOU
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For
DAILY ROSARY
with
Archbishop Robert Carlson
and
Seminarians from Kendrick-Glennon Seminary
recorded at
Saint Vincent De Paul Chapel in Saint Louis’ Cardinal Rigali Center.
______________________________________________________
Thursday of the Second week of Advent
9 December 2021
Stations of the cross
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STATIONS OF THE CROSS
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Thursday of the Second week of Advent
9 December 2021
Book of Isaiah 41,13-20.
I am the LORD, your God, who grasp your right hand; It is I who say to you, “Fear not, I will help you.”
Fear not, O worm Jacob, O maggot Israel; I will help you, says the LORD; your redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
I will make of you a threshing sledge, sharp, new, and double-edged, To thresh the mountains and crush them, to make the hills like chaff.
When you winnow them, the wind shall carry them off and the storm shall scatter them. But you shall rejoice in the LORD, and glory in the Holy One of Israel.
The afflicted and the needy seek water in vain, their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
I will open up rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the broad valleys; I will turn the desert into a marshland, and the dry ground into springs of water.
I will plant in the desert the cedar, acacia, myrtle, and olive; I will set in the wasteland the cypress, together with the plane tree and the pine,
That all may see and know, observe and understand, That the hand of the LORD has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Thursday of the Second week of Advent
9 December 2021
Psalms 145(144),1.9.10-11.12-13ab.
I will extol you, O my God and King,
and I will bless your name forever and ever.
The LORD is good to all
and compassionate toward all his works.
Let all your works give you thanks, O LORD,
and let your faithful ones bless you.
Let them discourse of the glory of your Kingdom
and speak of your might.
Making known to men your might
and the glorious splendor of your Kingdom.
Your Kingdom is a Kingdom for all ages,
and your dominion endures through all generations.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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Thursday of the Second week of Advent
9 December 2021
Saints of the day
St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin
(1474-1548)
SAINTS OF THE DAY
St. Leocadia
VIRGIN AND MARTYR
(† C. 304)
IMAGE: N/A
SAINTS OF THE DAY
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2019
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You shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
_______________________________________________________
Let me sing of the LORD,
“He has been good to me.”
_____________________________________
“I am with you always, until
the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20.
_______________________________________
“This is my commandment:
love one another as I love you.”
_______________________________
FRANCIS XAVIER SAMSEN
HAPPY JESUS TO ALL
FROM
FRANCIS XAVIER, SAMSEN
THAILAND
___________________________________________________
MERRY CHRISTMAS
TO ALL
__________________________________________________
Wednesday, December 8th. Daily & Sunday Mass, Daily Rosary & Stations of the Cross
Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary – Solemnity
8 December 2021
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
“Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.
May it be done to me according to your word.”
DAILY GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS
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THANK YOU
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For
Celebrates Daily TV Mass from Loretto Abbey in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
by
Fr. Pat Fitzpatrick, C.S.Sp.
Catholic Mass Today | Daily TV Mass,
Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary – Solemnity
8 December 2021
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ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things and I desire You in my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,
Come at least spiritually into my heart.
As though You were already there,
I embrace You and unite myself wholly to You;
Permit not that I should ever be separated from You. Amen
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Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary – Solemnity
8 December 2021
The Immaculate Conception of the
Blessed Virgin Mary
Immaculate Conception
of the Blessed Virgin Mary
(Solemnity)
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception celebrates the solemn belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is universally celebrated on December 8, nine months before the feast of the Nativity of Mary, which is celebrated on September 8. A feast called the Conception of Mary arose in the Eastern Church in the seventh century. It came to the West in the eighth century. In the 11th century it received its present name, the Immaculate Conception. In the 18th century it became a feast of the universal Church. It is now recognized as a solemnity.
In 1854, Pius IX solemnly proclaimed: “The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin.”
It took a long time for this doctrine to develop. While many Fathers and Doctors of the Church considered Mary the greatest and holiest of the saints, they often had difficulty in seeing Mary as sinless—either at her conception or throughout her life. Two Franciscans, William of Ware and Blessed John Duns Scotus, helped develop the theology. They pointed out that Mary’s Immaculate Conception enhances Jesus’ redemptive work. Other members of the human race are cleansed from original sin after birth. In Mary, Jesus’ work was so powerful as to prevent original sin at the outset. In Luke 1:28 the angel Gabriel, speaking on God’s behalf, addresses Mary as “full of grace” (or “highly favored”). In that context this phrase means that Mary is receiving all the special divine help necessary for the task ahead. However, the Church grows in understanding with the help of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit led the Church, especially non-theologians, to the insight that Mary had to be the most perfect work of God next to the Incarnation. Or rather, Mary’s intimate association with the Incarnation called for the special involvement of God in Mary’s whole life. The logic of piety helped God’s people to believe that Mary was full of grace and free of sin from the first moment of her existence. Moreover, this great privilege of Mary is the highlight of all that God has done in Jesus. Rightly understood, the incomparable holiness of Mary shows forth the incomparable goodness of God.
“It is no wonder, then, that the usage prevailed among the holy Fathers whereby they called the mother of God entirely holy and free from all stain of sin, fashioned by the Holy Spirit into a kind of new substance and new creature. Adorned from the first instant of her conception with the splendors of an entirely unique holiness, the Virgin of Nazareth is, on God’s command, greeted by an angel messenger as ‘full of grace’ (cf. Luke 1:28). To the heavenly messenger she replies: ‘Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done to me according to thy word’ (Luke 1:38)” (Vatican II, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, 56).
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Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary –
Solemnity
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
Patronal Feast day of the United States of America
Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, the solemn dogma defined by Blessed Pope Pius IX in 1854. As Our Lady Immaculately Conceived is the patroness of the United States of America, this is a holy day of obligation in the United States.
Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, “full of grace” through God, was redeemed from the moment of her conception. That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Blessed Pope Pius IX proclaimed on December 8, 1854: “The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Saviour of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin.”
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Immaculate Conception of Mary”Hail Mary, full of grace”. For thousands of centuries, millions of times per day the Virgin Mary is greeted by the faithful with the greeting of the Archangel, that we hear resonating anew in today’s Gospel. The sons of the Church learn from the words of the Archangel Gabriel that the fullness of the mystery of God’s grace was realized in Holy Mary. St Paul the Apostle teaches us that the Father made all fullness dwell in His Incarnate Son (c.f. Col 1:12-20), which overflows from Christ’s head and spills out on His Mystical Body that is the Church. Before descending in Body, Christ’s fullness was spread in a unique and unrepeatable way on Mary, predestined from eternity to be the Mother of God.
Significantly in the first reading, the liturgy recalls the figure of Eve, the mother of all the living. The Fathers of the Church saw in Mary, the new Eve that unties the knot bound by the first woman. The knot of disobedience tied by Eve, was untied by the obedience of Mary. As Eve was created in purity and integrity, also the new Eve was miraculously preserved from the contamination of original sin because she had to give humanity the Word, who was incarnated for our ransom.
Saint Irenaeus compares the virginity of the pure earth from which Adam was drawn to the virginity of the immaculate humanity of Mary from which the Second Adam was drawn. ‘And as the protoplast himself, Adam, had his substance from untilled and as yet virgin soil (for God had not yet sent rain, and man had not tilled the ground (Genesis 2:5)) so did He who is the Word, recapitulating Adam in Himself, rightly receive a birth, enabling Him to gather up Adam [into Himself], from Mary, who was as yet a virgin’ (Adversus hereses III, 21:10).
Blessed Pope Pius IX on the 8th of December 1854 proclaimed the Dogma of the faith revealed by God that the Blessed Virgin Mary “in the first instant of her conception, by a singular privilege and grace granted by God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin” (Denz.-Schonm, 2083). If the official proclamation of the dogma is relatively recent, the profession of faith by Christians and the liturgy is very ancient in this regard. Furthermore, four years later the same Virgin Mary, appearing in Lourdes to St Bernadette, confirmed the truth of the doctrine by presenting herself with the title ‘I am the Immaculate Conception’.
Mary’s predestination to this singular grace—consistent with the suspension of the universal decree by which every man, from the moment of his conception is contaminated with original sin—leads us to ponder in the deepest depths the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity’s salvific plan. God, One and Triune, had foreseen from the very beginning the future incarnation of the Word culminating in the redemption of human nature that had fallen into sin. He therefore predestined pure Mary, so that He could draw from her uncontaminated humanity, which the Son could adopt in order to re-establish in Himself the original purity of creation and reorientate it to eternal glory.
For this reason, in the second reading of today’s liturgy, St Paul reminds us that God wants to see us holy and immaculate before Him. The purity of our origins seemed to be irredeemably lost. However, in Immaculate Mary, God found the perfect solution to reverse the disaster made from the misuse of our liberty, and returned humanity to the original purity that seemed hopelessly lost.
Mary’s Immaculate Conception is a direct consequence of her Divine Maternity. St Anslem of Aosta wrote: ‘Assuredly, it was fitting that the Virgin be beautified with a purity than which a greater cannot be conceived, except for God’s. For, toward her, God the Father was so disposed to give His only Son who was naturally one and the same common Son of God the Father and of the Virgin.’ (De conceptu virginali et originali peccato, XVIII)
This link between the privilege of Divine Maternity and Mary’s Immaculate Conception results also in her superiority with respect to us. She is a perfect image of the Church in heaven, the new triumphant Jerusalem, that won’t have any marks nor will there be pain and death. This is why today’s preface recites: ‘…she was to be a worthy mother of your Son, your sign of favour to the church at its beginning, and the promise of its perfection as the bride of Christ, radiant in beauty’. Also in heaven Mary is not and will never be only a disciple, but her Son’s most exalted. She is and will always be the Mother of God, the Mother of the Church, the Queen of the Angels and Saints. Therefore, the preface of the Mass adds: ‘…You chose her from all creatures to be our advocate with you and our pattern of holiness.’
Mary was Immaculate because she had to be the Mother of God. She, herself has received the original grace of purity and the final state of the blessed life that we also, by collaborating with Divine Grace, hope one day to receive.
Immaculate Mary is full of grace. She is not only Christ’s disciple, who with the help of grace has overcome the chains of sin, but she is totius Trinitatis nobile triclinium, the noble resting place of the Holy Trinity (St Thomas Aquinas, Exposito Salutationis Angelicae, I). The Immaculate, full of grace, will always be Mother and Queen for that elect part of the Church that we hope one day to join, that will one day joyfully sing before the Almighty.
::::From the Congregation for the Clergy
Hail Mary / Ave Maria
Hail Mary, full of grace.
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Ave Maria, gracia plena, Dominus tecum :
benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
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Patron: United States.
Symbols: crown and monogram; lily; enclosed garden; crown of stars; glass (symbol of purity) lily often placed in a vase of transparent glass; lily of the valley.
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Book of Genesis 3,9-15.20.
The LORD God called to the Adam and asked him, “Where are you?”
He answered, “I heard you in the garden; but I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid myself.”
Then he asked, “Who told you that you were naked? You have eaten, then, from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat!”
The man replied, “The woman whom you put here with me–she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it.”
The LORD God then asked the woman, “Why did you do such a thing?” The woman answered, “The serpent tricked me into it, so I ate it.”
Then the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you shall be banned from all the animals and from all the wild creatures; On your belly shall you crawl, and dirt shall you eat all the days of your life.
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will strike at your head, while you strike at his heel.”
The man called his wife Eve, because she became the mother of all the living.
Letter to the Ephesians 1,3-6.11-12.
Brothers and sisters: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens,
as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him. In love
he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ, in accord with the favor of his will,
for the praise of the glory of his grace that he granted us in the beloved.
In him we were also chosen, destined in accord with the purpose of the one who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will,
so that we might exist for the praise of his glory, we who first hoped in Christ.
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Psalms 98(97),1.2-3ab.3bc-4.
Sing to the LORD a new song,
for he has done wondrous deeds;
His right hand has won victory for him,
his holy arm.
The LORD has made his salvation known:
in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice.
He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness
toward the house of Israel.
toward the house of Israel.
All the ends of the earth have seen
Sing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands;
break into song; sing praise.
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Saints of the day
St. Narcisa de Jesús Martillo Morán
(1832-1869)
SAINTS OF THE DAY
St. Patapius
HERMIT
SAINTS OF THE DAY
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You shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
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Let me sing of the LORD,
“He has been good to me.”
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“I am with you always, until
the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20.
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“This is my commandment:
love one another as I love you.”
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THAILAND
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TO ALL
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Tuesday, December 7th. Daily & Sunday Mass, Daily Rosary & Stations of the Cross
Tuesday of the Second week of Advent
7 December 2021
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he
not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray?
DAILY GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS
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ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things and I desire You in my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,
Come at least spiritually into my heart.
As though You were already there,
I embrace You and unite myself wholly to You;
Permit not that I should ever be separated from You. Amen
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Tuesday of the Second week of Advent
7 December 2021
Book of Isaiah 40,1-11.
Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God.
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her service is at an end, her guilt is expiated; Indeed, she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.
A voice cries out: In the desert prepare the way of the LORD! Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God!
Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill shall be made low; The rugged land shall be made a plain, the rough country, a broad valley.
Then the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all mankind shall see it together; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
A voice says, “Cry out!” I answer, “What shall I cry out?” “All mankind is grass, and all their glory like the flower of the field.
The grass withers, the flower wilts, when the breath of the LORD blows upon it. (So then, the people is the grass.)
Though the grass withers and the flower wilts, the word of our God stands forever.”
Go up onto a high mountain, Zion, herald of glad tidings; Cry out at the top of your voice, Jerusalem, herald of good news! Fear not to cry out and say to the cities of Judah: Here is your God!
Here comes with power the Lord GOD, who rules by his strong arm; Here is his reward with him, his recompense before him.
Like a shepherd he feeds his flock; in his arms he gathers the lambs, Carrying them in his bosom, and leading the ewes with care.
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Tuesday of the Second week of Advent
7 December 2021
Psalms 96(95),1-2.3.10ac.11-12.13.
Sing to the LORD a new song;
sing to the LORD, all you lands.
Sing to the LORD, bless his name;
Announce his salvation day after day.
Tell his glory among the nations;
among all peoples, his wondrous deeds.
Say among the nations: The LORD is king.
He governs the peoples with equity.
Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice;
let the sea and what fills it resound;
let the plains be joyful and all that is in them.
Then shall all the trees of the forest exult before the LORD.
The LORD comes,
he comes to rule the earth.
He shall rule the world with justice
and the peoples with his constancy.
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Tuesday of the Second week of Advent
7 December 2021
Saint of the day
St. Ambrose
SAINTS OF THE DAY
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You shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
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Let me sing of the LORD,
“He has been good to me.”
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“I am with you always, until
the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20.
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“This is my commandment:
love one another as I love you.”
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FRANCIS XAVIER SAMSEN
HAPPY JESUS TO ALL
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THAILAND
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
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Monday, December 6th. Daily & Sunday Mass, Daily Rosary & Stations of the Cross
Monday of the Second week of Advent
6 December 2021
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
They went up on the roof and lowered him on the stretcher
through the tiles into the middle in front of Jesus.
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ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things and I desire You in my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,
Come at least spiritually into my heart.
As though You were already there,
I embrace You and unite myself wholly to You;
Permit not that I should ever be separated from You. Amen
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Book of Isaiah 35,1-10.
The desert and the parched land will exult; the steppe will rejoice and bloom.
They will bloom with abundant flowers, and rejoice with joyful song. The glory of Lebanon will be given to them, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon; They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.
Strengthen the hands that are feeble, make firm the knees that are weak,
Say to those whose hearts are frightened: Be strong, fear not! Here is your God, he comes with vindication; With divine recompense he comes to save you.
Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of the deaf be cleared;
Then will the lame leap like a stag, then the tongue of the dumb will sing. Streams will burst forth in the desert, and rivers in the steppe.
The burning sands will become pools, and the thirsty ground, springs of water; The abode where jackals lurk will be a marsh for the reed and papyrus.
A highway will be there, called the holy way; No one unclean may pass over it, nor fools go astray on it.
No lion will be there, nor beast of prey go up to be met upon it. It is for those with a journey to make, and on it the redeemed will walk.
Those whom the LORD has ransomed will return and enter Zion singing, crowned with everlasting joy; They will meet with joy and gladness, sorrow and mourning will flee.
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Monday of the Second week of Advent
6 December 2021
Psalms 85(84),9ab-10.11-12.13-14.
I will hear what God proclaims;
the LORD –for he proclaims peace to his people.
Near indeed is his salvation to those who fear him,
glory dwelling in our land.
Kindness and truth shall meet;
justice and peace shall kiss.
Truth shall spring out of the earth,
and justice shall look down from heaven.
The LORD himself will give his benefits;
our land shall yield its increase.
Justice shall walk before him,
and salvation, along the way of his steps.
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Monday of the Second week of Advent
6 December 2021
Saint of the day
St. Nicholas of Bari
(† 342)
SAINTS OF THE DAY
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You shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
_______________________________________________________
Let me sing of the LORD,
“He has been good to me.”
_____________________________________
“I am with you always, until
the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20.
_______________________________________
“This is my commandment:
love one another as I love you.”
_______________________________
FRANCIS XAVIER SAMSEN
HAPPY JESUS TO ALL
FROM
FRANCIS XAVIER, SAMSEN
THAILAND
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
TO ALL
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