The third Sunday of Advent

First Reading: Isaiah  61.1-2a, 10-11: I will greatly rejoice in the Lord

Responsorial Canticle: Luke 1.47-48, 49-50, 53-54 (R. Isa 61.10b) 

Response:

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Second Reading: 1 Thessalonians 5. 16-24: May your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Gospel Acclamation:

Gospel: John 1.6-8, 19-28: Among you stands one whom you do not know, the one who is coming after me.

Anthem: This is the record of John – Orlando Gibbons (c.1583-1625)

[Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford]

This is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed, and denied not; and said plainly, I am not the Christ.

And they asked him, What art thou then? Art thou Elias? And he said, I am not.  Art thou the prophet? And he answered, No.

Then said they unto him, What art thou? that we may give an answer unto them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? And he said, I am the voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord.

(John 1. 19–23)

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