Month: December 2023

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Season Five: Episode 6

Readings for December 31, 2023:   First Sunday after Christmas / For the Catholic Mass: Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph

Presentation of Christ in the Temple (1516) by Fra Bartolomeo (1472-1517)

  • Isaiah 61:10–62:3
  • Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14   (Catholic Mass)
  • Psalm 111 
  • Psalm 128:1-5 (Catholic Mass)
  • Psalm 147
  • Psalm 148 
  • Galatians 4:4-7
  • Colossians 3:12-21 (Catholic Mass)
  • Luke 2:22-40
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Season Five: Episode 5

Readings for December 24 & 25, 2023: Christmas!

The Nativity (1495) by Gerard David (c.1460-1523)

Readings for December 24/ 25, 2023

Christmas!

Christmas  I

  • Isaiah 7:10-14
  • Isaiah 9:1-7
  • Psalm 96
  • Psalm 110:1-4
  • Titus 2:11-14
  • 1 John 4:7-16
  • Matthew 1:18-25

Christmas II

  • Isaiah 62:6-12
  • Psalm 97
  • Titus 3:4-7
  • Luke 2:1-20

Christmas III

  • Isaiah 52:7-10
  • Psalm 2
  • Psalm 98
  • Hebrews 1:1-12
  • John 1:1-18
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Season Five: Episode 4

Readings for December 24, 2023: The Fourth Sunday in Advent

The Annunciation (1440-45) by Fra Angelico (c. 1395 – 1455)

  • 2 Samuel 7:1-16 
  • Psalm 89:1-5, 19-29 
  • Luke 1:46b-55 (Psalm Alternative Magnificat  or the Mary’s Song of Praise)
  • Romans 16:25-27 
  • Luke 1:26-38
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Season Five: Episode 3

Readings for December 17, 2023: The Third Sunday in Advent

“The Preaching of St. John” (1566) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1530 –1569)

  • Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 
  • Psalm 126  
  • Luke 1:46-55 (Alternative)
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 
  • John 1:6-8, 19-28

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Season Five: Episode 2

Readings for December 10, 2023:   The Second Sunday in Advent

St John the Baptist in the Desert (c.1542) by Tiziano Vecelli  “Titian” (c. 1488/90-1576)

  • Isaiah 40:1-11 
  • Psalm 85 
  • 2 Peter 3:8-15
  • Mark 1:1-8