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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n3rd Week of Advent\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (C)\, Weekdays (I)\nDecember 15 – 21\, 2024\n\n\n\nSun\n15\nMon\n16\nTue\n17\nWed\n18\nThu\n19\nFri\n20\nSat\n21\n\n\nOffice\n3rd Sunday of Advent\nAdvent Weekday\nAdvent Weekday\nAdvent Weekday\nAdvent Weekday\nAdvent Weekday\nAdvent Weekday\n\n\nVigils\nIsa 29:13-24\nIsa 30:15-26\nIsa 45:1-13\nIsa 46:1-13\nIsa 47:1-15\nIsa 48:1-11\nIsa 48:12-22\n\n\nLauds\nZech 2:10-17\nIsa 12:1-6\nIsa 40:1-5\nIsa 40:6-11\nIsa 40:25-31\nIsa 41:1-10\nIsa 41:11-16\n\n\nMass\n9\n187\n193\n194\n195\n196\n197\n\n\n1st\nZeph 3:14-18a\nNum 24:2-7\, 15-17a\nGen 49:2\, 8-10\nJer 23:5-8\nJudg 13:2-7\, 24-25a\nIsa 7:10-14\nSong 2:8-14\n\n\n2nd\nPhil 4:4-7\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nLuke 3:10-18\nMatt 21:23-27\nMatt 1:1-17\nMatt 1:18-24\nLuke 1:5-25\nLuke 1:26-38\nLuke 1:39-45\n\n\nVespers\nRom 9:1-8\nRom 10:1-13\n1 Thess 5:16-24\nPhil 1:3-11\nPhil 3:17-21\nPhil 4:4-9\n1 Cor 1:1-9
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 3rd Sunday of Advent
DESCRIPTION:YOU MUST BUILD UPON ROCK \nFrom a commentary by Origen of Alexandria \n◊◊◊ \nThe baptism that Jesus gives is a baptism in the Holy Spirit and in fire. \nBaptism is one and the same no matter who receives it\, but its effect depends on \nthe recipient’s disposition. He who is portrayed as baptizing in the Holy Spirit \nand in fire holds a winnowing fan in his hand\, which he will use to clear the \nthreshing floor. The wheat he will gather into his barn\, but the chaff he will \nburn with fire that can never be quenched. \nI should like to discover our Lord’s reason for holding a winnowing fan \nand to inquire into the nature of the wind that scatters the light chaff here and \nthere\, leaving the heavier grain lying in a heap – for you must have a wind if you \nwant to separate wheat and chaff. \nI suggest that the faithful are like a heap of unsifted grain\, and that the \nwind represents the temptations which assail them and show up the wheat and \nchaff among them. When your soul is overcome by some temptation\, it is not the \ntemptation that changes you into chaff. No\, you were chaff already\, that is to \nsay\, fickle and faithless; the temptation simply discloses the stuff you were \nmade of. On the other hand\, when you endure temptations bravely it is not the \ntemptation that made you faithful and patient; temptation merely brings to \nlight the hidden virtues of patience and fortitude that have been present in you \nall along. Do you think that I had any other purpose in speaking to you\, said the \nLord to Job\, than to reveal your virtue? In another text he declares: I humbled \nyou and made you feel the pangs of hunger in order to find out what was in \nyour heart. \nIn the same way\, a storm will not allow a house to stand firm if it is built \non sand. If you wish to build a house\, you must build it upon rock. Then any \nstorms that arise will not demolish your handiwork\, whereas the house built \nupon sand will totter\, proving thereby that it is not well founded. \nSo while all is yet quiet\, before the storm gathers\, before the squalls begin \nto bluster or the waves to swell\, let us concentrate all our efforts on the \nfoundations of our building and construct our house with the many strong\, \ninterlocking bricks of God’s commandments. Then when cruel persecutions is \nunleashed like some fearful tornado against Christians\, we shall be able to show \nthat our house is built upon Christ Jesus our rock. \nFar be it from us to deny Christ when the time comes. But if anyone \nshould do so\, let that person realize that it is not at the moment of his public \ndenial that apostasy took place. Its seeds and roots had been hidden within him \nfor a long time; persecution only brought into the open and made public what \nwas already there. Let us pray to the Lord then that we may be firm and solid \nbuildings that no storm can overthrow\, founded on the rock of our Lord Jesus \nChrist.
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