TODAY’S GOSPEL MESSAGE for Sunday, December 2nd is from Luke 21:25-28, 34-36.
“Be vigilant at all times and pray that you have the strength to escape the tribulations that are imminent and to stand before the Son of Man.”
“Today is the First Sunday of Advent, the beginning of the new liturgical year. Yet the Gospel passage is all about the end of the world. The instruction for both is the same, however: prepare. We are called to be prepared and be ready at all times, whether marking a beginning or anticipating an eventual end.” Source: Pastoral Patterns, Winter 2018-2019
DAILY READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday Isa 2:1-5; Matt 8:5-11
Saint Francis Xavier, Priest (Memorial) – Canonized in 1602, he is the patron of all foreign missions.
Tuesday Isa 11:1-10; Luke 10:21-24
Wednesday Isa 25:6-10a; Matt 15:29-37
Thursday Isa 26:1-6; Matt 7:21, 24-27
Friday Isa 29:17-24; Matt 9:27-31
Saint Ambrose, Bishop & Doctor of the Church (Memorial) – He excelled as a preacher, teacher, and pastor and influenced the conversion of St. Augustine.
Saturday Gen 3:9-15, 20; Eph 1:3-6, 11-12; Luke 1:26-38
The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Feast) – In 1854 Pius IX defined the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception as a dogma of faith that Mary was born without original sin.