Friday December 14, 2018
Calendar-: Second Week of Advent Year C
Colour of Vestment: White
Saint Celebration-: SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS, Priest and Doctor of the Church Memorial
FIRST READING
Theme of reading-: “O that you had listened to my commandments!”
A reading from the Book of Isaiah (Isaiah 48 :17- 19)
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go. O that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, .and your righteousness like the waves of the sea; your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me.”
The word of the Lord.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
Taken from the book of-: Psalm 1 :1-2.3.4 and 6 (R. see John 8: 12)
R. He who follows you, Lord, will have the light of life
Blessed indeed is the man
Who follows not the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the path with sinners,
nor abides in the company of scorers,
but whose delight is the law of the Lord,
and who ponders his law day and night. R.
He is like a tree that is planted
beside the flowing waters,
that yields its fruit in due season,
and whose leaves shall never fade;
and all that he does shall prosper. R.
R. He who follows you, Lord, will have the light of life
Not so are the wicked, not so!
For they, like winnowed chaff,
shall be driven away by the wind.
For the Lord knows the way of the just,
but the way of the wicked will perish. R.
ALLELUIA
Alleluia. The Lord is coming, run out to meet him; he is the prince of peace.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL
Theme of the reading-: "They listened neither to John nor to the Son of man".
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Matthew 11:16-19)
At that time; Jesus said to the crowds, “To what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places and calling to their playmates, ‘We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn. ’ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon’; the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! ’Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”
The Gospel of the Lord.
BRIEF LIFE HISTORY OF SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS-:
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS, Priest and Doctor of the Church Memorial; Was given birth to closed to Avila (Spain) in 1542, John entered the Carmelites when he was 21 years old. After his priestly ordination, he began to cooperate with Saint Teresa of Avila in reforming the Carmelites. This work of renewal brought him many, trials and much suffering, but his deep faith gave him the energy to continue.
He wrote masterfully about the spiritual life and mystical union with God. Renowned for his wisdom and sanctity, he died in 1591
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