Sunday: Second Sunday of Advent
Is 11:1-10/Rom 15:4-9/Mt 3:1-12
“For whatever was written previously was written for our instruction, that by endurance and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.”
Romans 15:4, NABRE
Monday: The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Gn 3:9-15, 20/Eph 1:3-6, 11-12/Lk 1:26-38
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens”
Ephesians 1:3, NABRE
Tuesday
Is 40:1-11/Mt 18:12-14
“In just the same way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost.”
Matthew 18:14, NABRE
Wednesday
Is 40:25-31/Mt 11:28-30
“Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is God from of old,
creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary,
and his knowledge is beyond scrutiny.”
Isaiah 40:28, NABRE
Thursday
Is 41:13-20/Mt 11:11-15
“Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force. For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John came; and if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come.”
Matthew 11:11-14, NRSVCE
Friday
Zec 2:14-17 or Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab/Lk 1:26-38 or Lk 1:39-47
“In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.”
Luke 1:26-27, NRSVCE
Saturday
Sir 48:1-4, 9-11/Mt 17:9a, 10-13
“Then Elijah arose, a prophet like fire,
and his word burned like a torch.
He brought a famine upon them,
and by his zeal he made them few in number.
By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens,
and also three times brought down fire.
How glorious you were, Elijah, in your wondrous deeds!
Whose glory is equal to yours?”
Sirach 48:1-4, NRSVCE
