Year B Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 Canticle 15 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 John 1:6-8,19-28 May the words of my mouth…  O God…  speak your Truth… It’s Advent 6… and we wait…  and while we wait…  today’s reading from 1 Thessalonians reminds us to…    Rejoice always…  pray without ceasing…  and give thanks in all circumstances… and...

Year B Isaiah 40:1-11 Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13 2 Peter 3:8-15a Mark 1:1-8 May the words of my mouth…  O God…  speak your Truth… It’s Advent 5… and we wait…  and one of the things we wait for…  is on our bulletin cover…  and in the O Antiphon which is read before and after today’s...

Year B Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24 Psalm 95:1-7a Ephesians 1:15-23 Matthew 25:31-46 May the words of my mouth…  O God…  speak your Truth… It’s Advent 3…  and we wait…  and it’s Christ the King Sunday…  but in its present form…  we haven’t been waiting for too long…  we’ve been celebrating Advent for more than fifteen...

Year B Zephaniah 1:7,12-18 Psalm 90:1-8,12 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 Matthew 25:14-30 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… It’s Advent… and we wait… we wait for the long list of issues which continue to… stress… us… out… to end… the pandemic… rising infection rates and death tolls… when a vaccine...

Year B Amos 5:18-24 Psalm 70 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Matthew 25:1-13 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… It’s Advent… and we wait… the word advent means that we wait for the arrival of a notable person or thing… but what do we wait for… do we wait for things...