Catholic Missal of the day: Sunday, December 2 2018
First Sunday of Advent
First Sunday of Advent
1. ReadingBook of Jeremiah
33,14-16.]The days are coming, says the LORD, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and Judah.
]In those days, in that time, I will raise up for David a just shoot; he shall do what is right and just in the land.
]In those days Judah shall be safe and Jerusalem shall dwell secure; this is what they shall call her: "The LORD our justice."
Psalms
25(24),4bc-5ab.8-9.10.14.]Your ways, O LORD, make known to me;
]teach me your paths,
]guide me in your truth and teach me,
]for you are God my savior.
]Good and upright is the LORD;
thus he shows sinners the way.
]He guides the humble to justice,
he teaches the humble his way.
]All the paths of the LORD are kindness and constancy
toward those who keep his covenant and his decrees.
]The friendship of the LORD is with those who fear him,
and his covenant, for their instruction.
First Letter to the Thessalonians
3,12-13.4,1-2.]Brothers and sisters: May the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we have for you,
]so as to strengthen your hearts, to be blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his holy ones. Amen.
]Finally, brothers, we earnestly ask and exhort you in the Lord Jesus that, as you received from us how you should conduct yourselves to please God--and as you are conducting yourselves--you do so even more.
]For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke
21,25-28.34-36.]There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on earth nations will be in dismay, perplexed by the roaring of the sea and the waves.
]People will die of fright in anticipation of what is coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
]And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
]But when these signs begin to happen, stand erect and raise your heads because your redemption is at hand."
]Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise
]like a trap. For that day will assault everyone who lives on the face of the earth.
]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."
St. Bibiana(Virgin and Martyr (4th century))
SAINT BIBIANA Virgin and Martyr (4th century) St. Bibiana and her family were persecuted for believing in Jesus. Her father Flavian was arrested and burned in the face with a hot iron. He was banished to Aequapendente where he died of his wounds a few days later. St. Bibiana's mother Dafrosa was beheaded. Bibiana and her sister Demetria had their property confiscated and were put on trial by Apronianus, the governor of Rome. In front of the tribunal, Demetria confessed her faith in Jesus Christ and died. Apronianus then sentenced Bibiana to enslavement and forced conversion. When Bibiana did not apostatize, Apronianus had her scourged to death with whips of leaden plummets. She encountered Jesus Christ before passing away and beheld him immediately upon dying. She sees God face to face forever and intercedes for persecuted Christians.
Bl. Ivan Slezyuk(Bishop (1896-1973))
Blessed Ivan SlezyukBishop of the "clandestine" Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church(1896-1973) Bl. Ivan Slezyuk was born on January 14, 1896, in the village of Zhyvachiv, Stanislaviv: now Ivano-Frankivsk Region, Ukraine. He was ordained in 1923 after graduating from the seminary. In April 1945, he was ordained by Bp. Hryhory Khomyshyn as a coadjutor with the right of succession in case the Bishop was arrested. After succeeding his Bishop, Bl. Ivan was arrested on June 2, 1945, and deported for ten years to labor camps in Vorkuta, Russia. In 1950, he was transferred to the labor camps in Mordovia. After being released on November 15, 1954, he returned to Ivano-Frankivsk. In 1962, Bl. Ivan wasarrested again and imprisoned for five years in a camp of strict regimen. After he was released on November 30, 1968, he had to visit the KGB for regular "talks." The last visit was two weeks before his death. He fell ill immediately after the visit and passed away on December 2, 1973, in Ivano-Frankivsk. Pope John Paul II opened the case for Bl. Ivan Slezyuk's canonization. On June 27, 2001, Bl. Ivan was beatified. He conformed perfectly to Jesus Christ and intercedes for us in heaven.
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