Fourth Sunday of Advent
Mi 5:1-4a/Heb 10:5-10/Lk 1:39-45
““See, I have come to do your will.” He abolishes the first in order to establish the second. And it is by God’s will that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”
Hebrews 10:9-10, NRSVCE
Monday
Mal 3:1-4, 23-24/Lk 1:57-66
“See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.”
Malachi 3:1, NRSVCE
Tuesday
2 Sm 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16/Lk 1:67-79
“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
for he has looked favorably on his people and redeemed them.”
Luke 1:68, NRSVCE
Wednesday: The Nativity of the Lord
Is 52:7-10/Heb 1:1-6/Jn 1:1-18 or 1:1-5, 9-14
“The Lord has bared his holy arm
before the eyes of all the nations;
and all the ends of the earth shall see
the salvation of our God.”
Isaiah 52:10, NRSVCE
Thursday
Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59/Mt 10:17-22
“You will be hated by all because of my name, but whoever endures to the end will be saved.”
Matthew 10:22, NABRE
Friday
1 Jn 1:1-4/Jn 20:1a, 2-8
“what we have seen and heard
we proclaim now to you,
so that you too may have fellowship with us;
for our fellowship is with the Father
and with his Son, Jesus Christ.”
1 John 1:3, NABRE
Saturday
1 Jn 1:5—2:2/Mt 2:13-18
“When they had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him.” Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt. He stayed there until the death of Herod, that what the Lord had said through the prophet might be fulfilled, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
Matthew 2:13-15, NABRE
