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...
