December 18, 2025
Have a good day!
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Thursday of the Third Week of Advent
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☆ Gospel:Matthew 1:18-25
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Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this way: when his mother Mary was going to be married to Joseph, before they came together the discovery was made that she was with child by the Holy Spirit.
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And Joseph, her husband, being an upright man, and not desiring to make her a public example, had a mind to put her away privately.
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But when he was giving thought to these things, an angel of the Lord came to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, have no fear of taking Mary as your wife; because that which is in her body is of the Holy Spirit.
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And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins.
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Now all this took place so that the word of the Lord by the prophet might come true,
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See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.
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And Joseph did as the angel of the Lord had said to him, and took her as his wife;
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And he had no connection with her till she had given birth to a son; and he gave him the name Jesus.
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☆ Jeremiah 23:5-8
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See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land.
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In his days Judah will have salvation and Israel will be living without fear: and this is the name by which he will be named, The Lord is our righteousness.
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And so, truly, the days are coming when they will say no longer, By the living Lord, who took the children of Israel up out of the land of Egypt;
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But, By the living Lord, who took up the seed of Israel, and made them come out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had sent them; and they will be living in the land which is theirs.
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◇ Daily Readings December 18, 2025
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