Sunday Mass Readings for December 3 2023: First Sunday of Advent, Year B – Lectionary: 2
| Sunday Mass Readings for December 3 2023, First Sunday of Advent, Year B | |
|---|---|
| 1st Reading | Isaiah 63:16B-17, 19B; 64:2-7 |
| Responsorial Psalm | Psalms 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19 |
| 2nd Reading | 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 |
| Alleluia | Psalms 85:8 |
| Gospel | Mark 13:33-37 |
Sunday Mass Readings for December 3 2023, First Sunday of Advent, Year B
1st Reading – Isaiah 63:16B-17, 19B; 64:2-7
16B Thou, O Lord, art our father, our Redeemer: from everlasting is thy name.
17 Why have you made us err, O Lord, from your ways? Why have you hardened our heart, that we should not fear you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance.
19B They would melt as at the burning of fire, the waters would burn with fire: that thy name might be made known to thy enemies, that the nations might tremble at thy presence.
2 When thou shalt do wonderful things, we shall not bear them. Thou didst come down, and at thy presence the mountains melted away.
3 From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor perceived with the ears: the eye hath not seen, O God, besides thee, what things thou hast prepared for them that wait for thee.
4 Thou hast met him that rejoiceth and doth justice: in thy ways they shall remember thee. Behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in them we have been always and we shall be saved.
5 And we are all become as one unclean: and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman. And we have all fallen as a leaf: and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
6 There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up and taketh hold of thee: Thou hast hid thy face from us and hast crushed us in the hand of our iniquity.
7 And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.
Responsorial Psalm – Psalms 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19
R. (4) Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
2 Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth.
3 Stir up thy might, and come to save us.
R. Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
15 Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard
16 And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
R. Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
18 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
19 And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call upon thy name.
R. Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
2nd Reading – 1 Corinthians 1:3-9
Brothers and sisters:
3 Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God that is given you in Christ Jesus,
5 That in all things you are made rich in him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
6 As the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,
7 So that nothing is wanting to you in any grace, waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
8 Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the day of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 God is faithful: by whom you are called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Alleluia – Psalms 85:8
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
8 Show us Lord, your love;
and grant us your salvation.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel – Mark 13:33-37
Jesus said to his disciples:
33 “Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is.
34 Even as a man who going into a far country, left his house; and gave authority to his servants over every work, and commanded the porter to watch.
35 Watch ye therefore, (for you know not when the lord of the house cometh: at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning,)
36 Lest coming on a sudden, he find you sleeping.
37 And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch.”
Catholic Sunday Mass Readings Homily – December 3 2023, First Sunday of Advent, Year B
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