Monday December 3, 2018
Calendar: First Week of Advent Year C
Today’s Rosary: The Joyful Mystery
Saint for the 03/December/2018:
Saint Francis Xavier, Priest (Memorial)
FIRST READING
Theme of reading:
The Lord gathers all nations in the everlasting peace of the kingdom of heaven.
A reading from the Book of Isaiah (Isaiah 2:1-5)
The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.
The word of the Lord.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM Ps 122: 1-2.3-4ab.4cd-5.6-7.8-9 (R. sec 1 )
R. Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.
I rejoiced when they said to me,
Let us go to the house of the Lord.
And now our feet are standing within
your gates, O Jerusalem. R.
Jerusalem is built as a city
bonded as one together.
It is there that the tribes go up,
the tribes of the Lord. R.
R. Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.
For Israel’s witness it is
to praise the name of the Lord.
There were set the thrones for judgement,
the thrones of the house of David. R.
For the peace of Jerusalem pray,
May they prosper, those who love you.
May peace abide in your walls,
and security be in your towers. R.
R. Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.
For the sake of my family and friends,
let me say, “Peace upon you.”
For the sake of the house of the Lord, our God,
I will seek good things for you. R.
ALLELUIA Psalm 80:3b-4
Alleluia. Come to save us, Lord our God; let your face shine on us, and we shall be saved. Alleluia.
GOSPEL
Theme of the gospel:
Many will come from east and west and sit at table in the kingdom of heaven.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Matthew 8:5-11)
At that time; As Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, begging him and saying, “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, in terrible distress.” And he said to him, “I will come and heal him.” But the centurion answered him, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my slave ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” When Jesus heard him, he marvelled, and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such faith. I tell you, many will come from east and west and sit at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.”
The Gospel of the Lord.
Saint's history For 03/December/2018: (SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER, Priest)
He was Born in Spain in the year 1506, Francis was one of the first Jesuits. In 1537 he was ordained at Rome and there devoted himself to works of charity. In 1541 he felt the calling to be a missionary and went to preach the Gospel in the far East where he spent the rest of his life. For eleven years, in suffering and prayer, he brought the faith to parts of India, Sri Lanka and Japan. He died at the gates of China in 1552 at the age of 46.
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