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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n3rd Week of Advent\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (B)\, Weekdays (II)\nDecember 17 – 23\, 2023\n\n\n\nSun\n17\nMon\n18\nTue\n19\nWed\n10\nThu\n21\nFri\n22\nSat\n23\n\n\nOffice\n3rd Sunday of Advent\nAdvent Weekday\nAdvent Weekday\nAdvent Weekday\nAdvent Weekday \n175 Years\nAdvent Weekday\nAdvent Weekday\n\n\nVigils\nMicah 4:1-14\nIsa 40:12-31\nIsa 41:8-20\nIsa 41:21-29\nIsa 42:10-25\nIsa 43:1-15\nIsa 43:16-28\n\n\nLauds\nZech 2:10-17\nIsa 45:1-8\nIsa 45:18-25\nIsa 46:5-13\nIsa 49:8-13\nIsa 49:14-21\nIsa 49:22-26\n\n\nMass\n8\n194\n195\n196\n701.1\, 704.4\, 706.4\n198\n199\n\n\n1st\nIsa 61:1-2a\, 10-11\nJer 23:5-8\nJudg 13:2-7\, 24-25a\nIsa 7:10-14\n1 Kgs 8:22-23\, 27-30\n1 Sam 1:24-28\nMal 3:1-4\, 23-24\n\n\n2nd\n1 Thess 5:16-24\n\n\n\n1 Pet 2:4-9\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nJohn 1:6-8\, 19-28\nMatt 1:18-24\nLuke 1:5-25\nLuke 1:26-38\nJn 4:19-24\nLuke 1:46-56\nLuke 1:57-66\n\n\nVespers\nRom 9:1-8\nPhil 1:3-11\nPhil 3:17-21\nPhil 4:4-9\n\n1 Cor 4:1-5\nJas 5:7-11
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 3rd Sunday Advent
DESCRIPTION:THE AUTHENTIC WITNESS \nFrom the writings of Fr Jean Danielou \n◊◊◊ \nAs John the Baptist was the Lord’s precursor even before his birth\, so \nalso he was the forerunner of Christ’s public life. After the desert period came \nthe crowning moment of a life spent preparing the way for Christ. There was a \nman named John sent by God\, who came as a witness to testify to the light\, \nso that through him all might believe. \nThis text shows that the essential mission of John the Baptist was to bear \nwitness to the light\, to point to Jesus. His was a pre-eminent role in the \npreparation for the coming of Christ and of Christ’s own work. John it was who \npaved the way for our Lord’s public life and teaching by predisposing the souls \nof his hearers to receive it. One might say he was an educator of souls; his task \nwas…to do the preliminary chiseling that would make them more receptive to \nChrist’s message. Our Lord’s teaching would have been too strong for souls not \npreviously prepared for it. They needed some schooling in advance. Their \ninterests had to be re-directed; it was necessary to wean them from worldly \nhabits and to arouse a spiritual dissatisfaction in their hearts. \nThat was John the Baptist’s assignment. Sent to people utterly heedless \nof the things of God\, it was his task to awaken in them sufficient concern to \ndisturb their subtle ways and to stir up their initial goodwill\, so that they might \nbe capable of understanding Christ. \nJohn the Baptist thus joins the long succession of those who have taken \npart in the work of preparing for the Lord’s coming\, those who\, like John\, were \nwithdrawn by God from the things of this world and mysteriously admitted to \nthe divine plans\, in order that they might blaze the way for God among the \npeople. John in his turn will move among his contemporaries to mark out the \nLord’s way\, smoothing paths and leveling hills. But for such a mission he must \nfrom the outset be possessed by the Lord in the depths of his being\, since it is \na hard furrow he will have to plow. The people of the Baptist’s generation were \nabsorbed in the same pursuits as the people of our own day. St. Luke describes \nthem in a memorable passage: the soldiers engaged in violence and false \ncharges\, and the tax collectors in demanding more than their due. \nSuch is human nature. It was so in the time of John\, and it is the same \ntoday. Preoccupied with worldly affairs\, people are completely heedless of \nGod. As one goes here and there in the world it is very painful to experience \nthe utter indifference of the rank and file. To shake the world out of this [kind \nof] vision\, who can rouse the masses from their inertia? They have to be \nauthentic witnesses. A witness is someone who has first been granted an inner \nvision; God has introduced him to the divine viewpoint so that he can pass on \nwhat he has seen to others. \nSo it was with John the Baptist. God first admitted him to his own \ncouncil\, revealing to him the mystery of the divine plan\, drawing him into the \ndesert to share with him his own joy. Then came the essential part of his \nvocation: he was a witness to Christ; that is to say\, he was the one who pointed \nout Christ to the people \n1 Le mystère de l’Avent\, Paris 1948\, pp. 82-84; reprinted in Meditations on the Sunday Gospels: Year A; introduced \nand edited by John E. Rotelle\, Hyde Park\, NY: New City Press\, 1995\, pp. 18-19.3 \n 
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