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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n4th Week of Advent\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (A)\, Weekdays (II)\nDecember 21 – 27\, 2025\n\n\n\nSun\n21\nMon\n22\nTue\n23\nWed\n24\nThu\n25\nFri\n26\nSat\n27\n\n\nOffice\n4th Sunday of Advent\nAdvent Weekday\nAdvent Weekday\nAdvent Weekday\nNativity of the Lord\nSt Stephen\nSt John\n\n\nVigils\nIsa 42:10-25\nIsa 43:1-15\nIsa 43:16-28\nIsa 44:1-8\, 21-23\n*vigil and midnight mass\nActs 6:1-15\nWis 7:21-8:1\n\n\nLauds\nIsa 49:8-13\nIsa 49:14-21\nIsa 49:22-26\nIsa 63:15-19\nBaruch 3:36-4:4\n2 Chron 24:17-22\nProv 8:22-30\n\n\nMass\n10\n198\n199\n200\n16\n696\n697\n\n\n1st\nIsa 7:10-14\n1 Sam 1:24-28\nMal 3:1-4\, 23-24\n2 Sam 7:1-5\, 8b-12\, 14a\, 16\nIsa 52:7-10\nActs 6:8-10; 7:54-59\n1 John 1:1-4\n\n\n2nd\nRom 1:1-7\n\n\n\nHeb 1:1-6\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nMatt 1:18-24\nLuke 1:46-56\nLuke 1:57-66\nLuke 1:67-79\nJohn 1:1-18\nMatt 10:17-22\nJohn 20:1a\, 2-8\n\n\nVespers\n1 Cor 1:1-9\n1 Cor 4:1-5\nJas 5:7-11\n2 Pet 3:8-14\n1 John 4:7-16\nActs 7:51-8:2\nPhil 2:1-11
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 4th Sunday of Advent
DESCRIPTION:GOD WITH US \nFrom a commentary by the Venerable Bede \n◊◊◊ \nMatthew the evangelist gives us an account of the way in which the eternal \nSon of God\, begotten before the world began\, appeared in time as the Son of \nMan. His description is brief but absolutely true. By tracing the ancestry of our \nLord and Savior Jesus Christ through the male line he brings it down from \nAbraham to Joseph\, the husband of Mary. It is indeed fitting in every respect \nthat when God decided to become incarnate for the sake of the whole human \nrace\, none but a virgin should be his mother\, and that\, since a virgin was \nprivileged to bring him into the world\, she should bear no other son but the son \nwho is God. \nBehold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son\, and he shall be called \nEmmanuel\, a name which means God with us. The name God-with-us\, given to \nour Savior by the prophet\, signifies that two natures are united in his one \nperson. Before time began he was God\, born of the Father\, but in the fullness of \ntime he became Emmanuel\, God with us\, in the womb of his mother\, because \nwhen the Word was made flesh and lived among us he deigned to unite our frail \nhuman nature to his own person. Without ceasing to be what he had always \nbeen\, he began in a wonderful fashion to be what we are\, assuming our nature in \nsuch a way that he did not lose his own. \nAnd so Mary gave birth to her firstborn son\, the child of her own flesh and \nblood. She brought forth the God who had been born of God before creation \nbegan\, and who\, in his created humanity\, rightfully surpassed the whole of \ncreation. And Scripture says she named him Jesus. \nJesus\, then\, is the name of the Virgin’s son. According to the angel’s \nexplanation\, it means one who is to save his people from their sins. In doing so \nhe will also deliver them from any defilement of mind and body they have \nincurred on account of their sins. \nBut the title “Christ” implies a priestly or royal dignity. In the Old \nTestament it was given to both priests and kings on account of the anointing \nwith chrism or holy oil which they received. They prefigured the true king and \nhigh priest who\, on coming into this world\, was anointed with the oil of gladness \nabove all his peers. From this anointing or chrismation he received the name of \nChrist\, and those who share in the anointing which he himself bestows\, that is \nthe grace of the Spirit\, are called Christians. \nMay Jesus Christ fulfill his saving task by saving us from our sins; may he \ndischarge his priestly office by reconciling us to God the Father\, and may he \nexercise his royal power by admitting us to his Father’s kingdom\, for he is our \nLord and God\, who lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ever \nand ever.
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