The Second Sunday of Advent, Cycle C

Send us Fan MailSunday, 8 December 2024The Second Sunday of Advent, Cycle CAntiphons on p. 48 and Readings on p. 53 of the Daily Missal and p. 779of the Sunday Missal. First Reading: Baruch 5:1-9A reading from the Book of Baruch.Take off the garment of your sorrow and affliction, O Jerusalem, and put on forever the beauty of the glory from God. Put on the robe of the righteousness from God; put on your head the diadem of the glory of the Everlasting. For God will show your splendour everywhere under heaven. For your name will forever be called by God, “Peace of righteousness and glory of godliness.”Arise, O Jerusalem, stand upon the height and look toward the east, and see your children gathered from west and east, at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them. For they went forth from you on foot, led away by their enemies; but God will bring them back to you, carried in glory, as on a royal throne. For God has ordered that every high mountain and the everlasting hills be made low and the valleys filled up, to make level ground, so that Israel may walk safely in the glory of God. The woods and every fragrant tree have shaded Israel at God’s command. For God will lead Israel with joy, in the light of his glory, with the mercy and righteousness that come from him.The Word of the Lord.Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 126:1-2ab.2cd-3.4-5.6 (R. cf. 3)R/. What great deeds the Lord has worked for us!​Indeed, we were glad.When the Lord brought back the exiles of Sion,we thought we were dreaming.Then was our mouth filled with laughter;on our tongues, songs of joy.Then the nations themselves said, “What great deedsthe Lord worked for them!”What great deeds the Lord worked for us!Indeed, we were glad.Bring back our exiles, O Lord,as streams in the south.Those who are sowing in tearswill sing when they reap.They go out, they go out, full of tears,bearing seed for the sowing;they come back, they come back with a song,bearing their sheaves.R/. What great deeds the Lord has worked for us!​Indeed, we were glad. Second Reading: Philippians 1:4-6.8-11A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Philippians.Brothers and sisters: Always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, thankful for your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and maybe pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.The Word of the Lord.Alleluia. Alleluia. Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight: all flesh shall see the salvation of God.Alleluia.  Gospel: Luke 3:1-6