Sunday, December 11: Third Sunday of Advent
Is 35:1-6A, 10; Ps 146; Jas 5:7-10; Mt 11:2-11 Monday, December 12: Weekday of Advent, Our Lady of Guadalupe
Zec 2:14-17; Jdt 13:18BCDE, 19; Lk 5:17-26 Tuesday, December 13: St Lucy, Virgin, Martyr
Zep 3:1-2, 9-13; Ps 34; Mt 21:28-32 Wednesday, December 14: St John of the Cross, priest, Doctor of the Church
Is 45:6C-8, 18, 21C-25; Ps 85; Lk 7:18B-23 Thursday, December 15: Weekday of Advent
Is 54:1-10; Ps 30; Lk 7:24-30 Friday, December 16: Weekday of Advent
Is 56:1-3A, 6-8; Ps 67; Jn 5:33-36 Saturday, December 17: Weekday of Advent
Gn 49:2, 8-10; Ps 72; Mt 1:1-17
Extraordinary Form
Sunday, December 11: Third Sunday of Advent
Phil 4:4-7; Jn 1:19-28 Monday, December 12: Feria
Readings of Sunday repeated Tuesday, December 13: St Lucy, virgin and martyr
2 Cor 10:17-18,11:1-2; Mt13:44-52 Wednesday, December 14: Ember Day
Is 2:2-5; Is 7:10-15; Lk 1:26-38 Thursday, December 15: Feria
Readings of Sunday repeated Friday, December 16: Ember Day
Is 11:1-5; Lk 1:39-47 Saturday, December 17: Feria
Is 19:20-22; Is 35:1-7; Is 40:9-11; Is 45:1-8; Daniel 3:47-51; 2 Thess 2:1-8; Lk 3:1-6
Compiled by Gordon Dimon of the LMS
Prayer of the Week
O God, Who didst instil into the heart of St John of the Cross, Thy confessor and our father, a perfect spirit of self-abnegation and a surpassing love of Thy Cross, grant that assiduously following in his footsteps, we may attain to eternal glory. Through Christ Our Lord.
Amen.
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