November 29, 2020
I hope that you have a nice day today too.
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First Sunday of Advent
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Gospel : Matthew 13:33-37
33 He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures† of meal, until it was all leavened."
34 Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,
35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,
"I will open my mouth in parables;
I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."☆
36 Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field."
37 He answered them, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,
†13:33: literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit more than a bushel
☆13:35: Psalm 78:2
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Isaiah 63:16b-17, 64:1, 64:3b-8
(NABRE_Isaiah 63:16b-17, 19b; 64:2b-7)
63:16b For you are our Father,
though Abraham doesn't know us,
and Israel does not acknowledge us.
You, LORD, are our Father.
Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
17 O LORD, why do you make us wander from your ways,
and harden our heart from your fear?
Return for your servants' sake,
the tribes of your inheritance.
64:1 Oh that you would tear the heavens,
that you would come down,
that the mountains might quake at your presence.
3b you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence.
4 For from of old men have not heard,
nor perceived by the ear,
nor has the eye seen a God besides you,
who works for him who waits for him.
5 You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness,
those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned.
We have been in sin for a long time.
Shall we be saved?
6 For we have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment.
We all fade like a leaf;
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
7 There is no one who calls on your name,
who stirs himself up to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
8 But now, LORD, you are our Father.
We are the clay, and you our potter.
We all are the work of your hand.
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1 Corinthians 1:3-9
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;
5 that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge; 6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
7 so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;
8 who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
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* The World English Bible
http://ebible.org/web/
◇ November 29, 2020 Daily Mass Reading
http://www.hanamori.info/u/go/20201129bible.html
◇ Daily Readings November 29, 2020
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/112920.cfm
◇ Abiding Radio Instrumental
https://www.abidingradio.org/radio/instrumental
◇ Today's Bible Story
http://todaysbiblestory.seesaa.net/
◇ The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)
http://www.usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/index.cfm
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