Friday of the Second Week of Advent
FIRST
READING: Isaiah 48:17-19
17
Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the
Lord thy God that teach thee profitable things, that govern thee in
the way that thou walkest.
18
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as
a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,
19
And thy seed had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels
like the gravel thereof: his name should not have perished, nor have
been destroyed from before my face.
PSALM:
Psalms 1:1-4, 6
1
Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly,
nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence.
2
But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall
meditate day and night.
3
And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters,
which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall
not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.
4
Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth
from the face of the earth.
6
For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked
shall perish.
GOSPEL:
Matthew
11:16-19
16
But whereunto shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is like
to children sitting in the market place.
17
Who crying to their companions say: We have piped to you, and you
have not danced: we have lamented, and you have not mourned.
18
For John came neither eating nor drinking; and they say: He hath a
devil.
19
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say: Behold a man
that is a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of publicans and
sinners. And wisdom is justified by her children.
