This Weekend’s Readings
29th
November 2009 – 1st Sunday of Advent C
The First
Jeremiah 33:14-16
See, the days are coming - it
is the Lord who speaks - when I am going to fulfil the promise I made to the
House of Israel and the House of Judah:
In those days and at that time,
I will make a virtuous Branch
grow for David,
who shall practise honesty and
integrity in the land.
In those days Judah shall be
saved
and Israel shall dwell in
confidence.
And this is the name the city
will be called:
The Lord-our-integrity.
The Second Reading
.
1 Thessalonians 3:12 - 4:2
May the Lord be generous in
increasing your love and make you love one another and the whole human race as
much as we love you. And may he so confirm your hearts in holiness that you may
be blameless in the sight of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus Christ
comes with all his saints.
Finally, brothers, we urge you
and appeal to you in the Lord Jesus to make more and more progress in the kind
of life that you are meant to live: the life that God wants, as you learnt from
us, and as you are already living it. You have not forgotten the instructions
we gave you on the authority of the Lord Jesus.
The Gospel Reading
Luke 21:25-28.34-36
Jesus said to his disciples: 'There will be signs in the sun and
moon and stars; on earth nations in agony, bewildered by the clamour of the
ocean and its waves; men dying of fear as they await what menaces the world,
for the powers of heaven will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man
coming in a cloud with power and great glory. When these things begin to take
place, stand erect, hold your heads high, because your liberation is near at
hand.
'Watch yourselves, or your hearts will be coarsened with
debauchery and drunkenness and the cares of life, and that day will be sprung
on you suddenly, like a trap. For it will come down on every living man on the
face of the earth. Stay awake, praying at all times for the strength to survive
all that is going to happen, and to stand with confidence before the Son of
Man.'
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Longman and Todd, and Doubleday and Co Inc., and used by permission.