CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Second Sunday of Advent 12.10.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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“… As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way. A voice of one crying out in the desert: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.’ …”

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CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary 12.8.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary. And coming to her, he said, “Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you.”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “[‘Watch! for you do not know when the lord of the house is coming’] Sermons on the Song of Songs, no.11, 1” – Saint Gregory of Nyssa/ DailyGospel

Christ Breaking Bread, Photograph of Painting, adapted from image at loc.gov with credit to Detroit Publishing Co.

“This is one of the Lord’s great precepts: that His Disciples should shake off everything earthly as though it were dust … so as to let themselves be carried heavenward in one great impetus. He exhorts us to overcome sleep, to seek what is above (Col 3:1), to keep our spirits constantly on the alert and cast from our eyes

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CATHOLIC MASS VIDEO: First Sunday of Advent 12.3.17 – Heart of the Nation (Wisconsin)

File Photo of Mass Underway Inside Church, adapted from image at army.mil

Catholic TV Mass for the First Sunday of Advent, Dec. 1, 2017, from Heart of the Nation in Wisconsin. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image is file photo]

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CATHOLIC MASS VIDEO: First Sunday of Advent 12.3.17 – Catholic TV (Archdiocese of Boston)

Priest Lifting Large Host

Catholic TV Mass for the First Sunday of Advent, Dec. 1, 2017, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image is file photo]

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CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: First Sunday of Advent 12.3.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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“Jesus said to His Disciples: ‘Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when the time will come. … you do not know when the Lord of the house is coming, whether in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning. May he not come suddenly and find you sleeping. What I say to you, I

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CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Friday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time 12.1.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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“Jesus told His Disciples … ‘… When their buds burst open, you see for yourselves and know that summer is now near; in the same way, when you see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of God is near. Amen, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place. Heaven and

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CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle 11.30.17 – USCCB/NABRV

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“As Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea; they were fishermen. He said to them, ‘Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.’ …”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Jesus Christ is King” – Thy Kingdom Come/ Cardinal Wuerl

Christ the King Historic Image Print For Planned Stained Glass Window, adapted from image at loc.gov

“It has been the practice of the Church since 1925 to mark the last Sunday of the Church year by celebrating the Solemnity of Christ the King. At the time of the establishment of the feast with his encyclical Quas Primas, Pope Pius XI was concerned with a spreading wave of anti-clericalism and secularism, and with people’s complacency toward the

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