Author: Lucy
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December 13, 2024
Reading Isaiah 48: 17- 19 48:17 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord, your God, who teaches you beneficial things, who guides you in the way that you walk. 48:18 If only you had paid attention to my commandments! Your peace would have been like a river,…
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December 12, 2024
The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe The Book of the Prophet Zechariah 2:10 – 13 (Alternatively listed as verses 2:14 – 17 in other versions of the Bible.) 2:10 Sing praise and rejoice, daughter of Zion. For behold, I approach, and I will dwell in your midst, says the Lord. 2:11 And many nations…
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December 11, 2024
Isaiah 40: 25-31 40:25 “And to whom would you compare me or equate me?” says the Holy One. 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things. He leads forth their army by number, and he calls them all by name. Because of the fullness of his strength and robustness…
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December 10, 2024
Isaiah 40: 1- 11 40:1 “Be consoled, be consoled, O my people!” says your God. 40:2 Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call out to her! For her malice has reached its end. Her iniquity has been forgiven. She has received double for all her sins from the hand of the Lord. 40:3 The…
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December 9, 2024
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception Reading A Reading From the Book of Genesis 3: 9-15, 20 3:9 And the Lord God called Adam and said to him: “Where are you?” 3:10 And he said, “I heard your voice in Paradise, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and so I hid myself.” 3:11 He…
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December 8, 2024
Baruch 5: 1- 9 5:1 “ ‘Take off, O Jerusalem, the garment of your sorrow and troubles, and put on your beauty and the honor of that eternal glory, which you have from God. 5:2 God will surround you with a double garment of justice, and he will set a crown on your head of…
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December 7, 2024
Isaiah 30: 19- 21, 23- 26 30:19 For the people of Zion will live in Jerusalem. Bitterly, you will not weep. Mercifully, he will take pity on you. At the voice of your outcry, as soon as he hears, he will respond to you. 30:20 And the Lord will give you thick bread and accessible…
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December 6, 2024
Reading Isaiah 29: 17-24 29:17 In not more than a little while and a brief time, Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and a fruitful field will be considered to be a forest. 29:18 And in that day, the deaf will hear the words of a book, and out of darkness and…
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December 5, 2024
Isaiah 26: 1 – 6 26:1 In that day, this canticle will be sung in the land of Judah. Within it will be set the city of our strength: Zion, a savior, a wall with a bulwark. 26:2 Open the gates, and let the just people who guard the truth enter. 26:3 The old error…
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December 4, 2024
Isaiah 25: 6-10 25:6 And the Lord of hosts will cause all the peoples on this mountain to feast on fatness, to feast on wine, a fatness full of marrow, a purified wine. 25:7 And he will cast down violently, on this mountain, the face of the chains, with which all peoples had been…