Catholic Daily Readings for December 23 2023, Saturday of the Third Week of Advent – Lectionary: 199
| Catholic Daily Readings for December 23 2023, Saturday of the Third Week of Advent | |
|---|---|
| 1st Reading | Malachi 3:1-4, 23-24 |
| Responsorial Psalm | Psalms 25:4-5AB, 8-9, 10 AND 14 |
| Gospel | Luke 1:57-66 |
Daily Mass Readings for December 23 2023, Saturday of the Third Week of Advent
1st Reading – Malachi 3:1-4, 23-24
1 Behold I send my angel, and he shall prepare the way before my face. And presently the Lord, whom you seek, and the angel of the testament, whom you desire, shall come to his temple. Behold he comes, says the Lord of hosts.
2 And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? and who shall stand to see him? for he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller’s herb:
3 And he shall sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and shall refine them as gold, and as silver, and they shall offer sacrifices to the Lord in justice.
4 And the sacrifice of Judah and of Jerusalem shall please the Lord, as in the days of old, and in the ancient years.
23 Lo, I will send you Elijah, the prophet, Before the day of the LORD comes, the great and terrible day,
24 To turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and strike the land with doom.
Responsorial Psalm – Psalms 25:4-5AB, 8-9, 10 AND 14
R. (see Luke 21:28) Lift up your heads and see; your redemption is near at hand.
4 Your ways, O LORD, make known to me;
teach me your paths,
5AB Guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my savior.
R. Lift up your heads and see; your redemption is near at hand.
8 Good and upright is the LORD;
thus he shows sinners the way.
9 He guides the humble to justice,
he teaches the humble his way.
R. Lift up your heads and see; your redemption is near at hand.
10 All the paths of the LORD are kindness and constancy
toward those who keep his covenant and his decrees.
14 The friendship of the LORD is with those who fear him,
and his covenant, for their instruction.
R. Lift up your heads and see; your redemption is near at hand.
Alleluia
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
O King of all nations and keystone of the Church:
come and save man, whom you formed from the dust!
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel – Luke 1:57-66
57 Now Elizabeth’s full time of being delivered came, and she brought forth a son.
58 And her neighbours and kinsfolks heard that the Lord had showed his great mercy towards her, and they congratulated with her.
59 And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they called him by his father’s name Zechariah,
60 And his mother answering, said: Not so; but he shall be called John.
61 And they said to her: There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.
62 And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.
63 And demanding a writing table, he wrote, saying: John is his name. And they all wondered.
64 And immediately his mouth was opened, and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, blessing God.
65 And fear came upon all their neighbours; and all these things were noised abroad over all the hill country of Judea.
66 And all they that had heard them laid them up in their heart, saying: What, then, will this child be? For surely the hand of the Lord was with him.
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