December 6, 2015
We hope that today is a good day.
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Gospel: Luke 3:1-6
1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
2 in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.
3 He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.
4 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,
"The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
'Make ready the way of the Lord.
Make his paths straight.
5 Every valley will be filled.
Every mountain and hill will be brought low.
The crooked will become straight,
and the rough ways smooth.
6 All flesh will see God's salvation.'"☆
☆3:6: Isaiah 40:3-5
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Baruch 5:1-9
1 Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of your mourning and affliction, and put on the comeliness of the glory that comes from God for ever.
2 Cast about you the robe of the righteousness which comes from God; set a diadem on your head of the glory of the Everlasting.
3 For God will show your brightness to every region under heaven.
4 For your name shall be called of God for ever The peace of righteousness, and The glory of godliness.
5 Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand upon the height, and look about you towards the east, and behold your children gathered from the going down of the sun to the rising thereof at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.
6 For they went from you on foot, being led away of their enemies: but God brings them in to you borne on high with glory, * as on a royal throne.
7 For God has appointed that every high mountain, and the everlasting hills, should be made low, and the valleys filled up, to make plain the ground, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God.
8 Moreover the woods and every sweet smelling tree have overshadowed Israel by the commandment of God.
9 For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that comes from him.
*5:6: Another reading is, as children of the kingdom.
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Philippians 1:4-6, 8-11
4 always in every request of mine on behalf of you all making my requests with joy, 5 for your partnership‡ in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;
6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
8 For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offence to the day of Christ;
11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
‡1:5: The word translated "partnership" (koinonia) also means "fellowship" and "sharing".
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◇ The World English Bible
http://ebible.org/web/
◇ December 6, 2015 Daily Mass Reading
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/15_12_06.mp3
◇ Daily Readings December 6, 2015
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/120615.cfm
◇ Liturgical Calendar
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/calendarday.php?date=2015-12-06
◇ Zondervan King James Audio Bible
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/kjv/Luke.3
◇ King James Version Bible Online
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=Luke&chapter=3&verse=
◇ The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)
http://www.usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/index.cfm
◇ Douay-Rheims Bible
http://www.drbo.org/
☆ The Jesus Film (English Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pGEv9qXVaY
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