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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n2nd Week of Advent\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (C)\, Weekdays (I)\nDecember 8 – 14\, 2024\n\n\n\nSun\n8\nMon\n9\nTue\n10\nWed\n11\nThu\n12\nFri\n13\nSat\n14\n\n\nOffice\n2nd Sunday of Advent\nImmaculate Conception\nAdvent Weekday\nAdvent Weekday\nOur Lady of Guadalupe\nSt Lucy\nSt John of the Cross\n\n\nVigils\nIsa 22:8b-23\nRom 5:12-21\nIsa 24:19-25:5\nIsa 25:6-26:6\nProv 8:32-9:11\nIsa 27:1-13\nIsa 29:1-8\n\n\nLauds\nIsa 4:2-6\nIsa 43:1-7\nIsa 9:1-6\nIsa 11:1-9\nSir 4:11-18\nZeph 3:14-20\nIsa 11:10-16\n\n\nMass\n6\n689\n182\n183\n690A\n185\n186\n\n\n1st\nBar 5:1-9\nGen 3:9-15\, 20\nIsa 40:1-11\nIsa 40:25-31\nRev 11:19a; 12:1-6a\, 10ab\nIsa 48:17-19\nSir 48:1-4\, 9-11\n\n\n2nd\nPhil 1:4-6\, 8-11\nEph 1:3-6\, 11-12\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nLuke 3:1-6\nLuke 1:26-38\nMatt 18:12-14\nMatt 11:28-30\nLuke 1:39-47\nMatt 11:16-19\nMatt 17:9a\, 10-13\n\n\nVespers\nRom 5:1-11\nGal 4:21-5:1\nRom 8:18-27\nRom 6:16-23\nGal 3:23-29\nRom 8:1-6\nRom 8:9-17
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 2nd Sunday of Advent
DESCRIPTION:PREPARE A WAY FOR THE LORD \nFrom a commentary by Origen of Alexandria \n◊◊◊ \nThe word of God was addressed to John\, son of Zechariah\, in the desert\, \nand he went through all the Jordan valley. Where else could he go but through \nthe Jordan valley\, where there would be water at hand to baptize those wishing \nto amend their lives? \nNow the word Jordan means descent or coming down. Coming down and \nrushing in full flood is the river of God\, the Lord our Savior\, in whom we were \nbaptized. This is the real\, life-giving water\, and the sins of those baptized in it \nare forgiven. \nSo come\, catechumens\, and amend your lives so that you may have your \nsins forgiven in baptism. In baptism the sins of those who cease to sin are \nforgiven\, but if anyone comes to be baptized while continuing to sin\, that \nperson’s sins are not forgiven. This is why I urge you not to present yourselves \nfor baptism without thinking very carefully\, but to give some evidence that you \nreally mean to change your way of living. Spend some time living a good life. \nCleanse yourselves from all impurity and avoid every sin. Then when you \nyourselves have begun to despise your sins\, they will be forgiven you. You will be \nforgiven your sins if you renounce them. \nThe teaching of the Old Testament is the same. We read in the prophet \nIsaiah: A voice cries out in the desert: Prepare a way for the Lord. Build him a \nstraight highway.What way shall we prepare for the Lord? A way by land? \nCould the Word of God travel such a road? Is it not rather a way within ourselves \nthat we have to prepare for the Lord? Is it not a straight and level highway in our \nhearts that we are to make ready? Surely this is the way by which the Word of \nGod enters\, a way that exists in the spaciousness of the human body. The human \nheart is vast\, broad\, and capacious\, if only it is pure… You ought to judge it not \nby its physical size but by its power to embrace such a vast amount of knowledge \nof the truth. \nBut so that I may convince you that the human heart is large by a simple \nexample from daily life\, let us consider this. Whatever city we may have passed \nthrough\, we have in our minds. We remember its streets\, walls\, and buildings\, \nwhat they were like and where they were situated. We have a mental picture of \nthe roads we have traveled. In moments of quiet reflection our minds embrace \nthe sea that we have crossed. So\, as I said\, the heart that can contain all this is \nnot small! \nTherefore\, if what contains so much is not small\, let a way be prepared in \nit for the Lord\, a straight highway along which the Word and Wisdom of God \nmay advance. Prepare a way for the Lord by living a good life and guard that way \nby good works. Let the Word of God move in you unhindered and give you a \nknowledge of his coming and of his mysteries.
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