MASS READINGS FOR SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT
08.12.2024
First reading Baruch 5:1-9

‘God will show your splendour.’
Take off the garment of your sorrow and affliction, O Jerusalem,
and put on for ever the beauty of the glory from God.
Put on the robe of the righteousness from God;
put on your head the crown of the glory of the Everlasting.
For God will show your splendour everywhere under heaven. [Read more…]

MASS READINGS FOR ADVENT SUNDAY
First reading
Jeremiah 33:14-16

‘I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David.’

Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will fulfil the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’ [Read more…]