ANG BANAL NA MISA PAMBUNGAD NA AWIT Pari: Sa ngalan ng Ama, at ng anak, at ng Espiritu Santo. Bayan: Amen P. Sumainyo ang Panginoon. B. At sumainyo rin. P. Mga kapatid, aminin nating ang ating mga kasalanan upang tayo’y maging marapat sa pagdiriwang ng banal na paghahaing ito. Sinugong Tagapagpagaling sa mga nagsisisi, Panginoon, kaawaan mo kami. B. Panginoon, kaawaan mo kami. P. Dumating na Tagapag-anyayang mga makasalana’y magsisi, Kristo, kaawaan mo kami. B. Kristo, kaawaan mo kami...
FIRST DAY: DECEMBER 16 (from the book: Where is the Child?by Fr. R. Marcos (Makati: StPauls); pls responsibly acknowledge source when using publicly) fr tam nguyen's photo First Reading: Isaiah 56:1-3, 6-8 Thus says the Lord: Observe what is right, do what is just, for my salvation is about to come, my justice, about to be revealed. Hay is the one who does this, whoever holds fast to it: Keeping the sabbath without profaning it, keeping one’s hand from doing any evil. The foreigner joined to the Lord should not say, “The Lord will surely exclude me from his people”; Nor should the eunuch say, “See, I am a dry tree.” And foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, to become his servants—All who keep the sabbath without profaning it and hold fast to my covenant, them I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and t...
SECOND DAY: December 17 (from the book: Where is the Child?by Fr. R. Marcos (Makati: StPauls); pls responsibly acknowledge source when using publicly) fr tam nguyen's photo First Reading: Genesis 49:2, 8-10 Jacob called his sons and said [to them]: “Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob, listen to Israel, your father. “You, Judah, shall your brothers praise—your hand on the neck of your enemies;the sons of your father shall bow down to you. Judah is a lion’s cub, you have grown up on prey, my son. He crouches, lies down like a lion, Like a lioness—who would dare rouse him? The scepter shall never depart from Judah, or the mace from between his feet, until tribute comes to him, and he receives the people’s obedience.” A. Short Background on the First Reading 1. Who was Judah? Judah was one of the twelve sons of Jacob (or Isra...