Peace comes from God when we do His will! It is all about Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love!

Peace comes from God when we do His will! Mary knew this and accepted His wish for her to be the mother of Jesus, who is the son of God, Emmanuel, God with us, the Salvation of the world! Micah foretells of Jesus, saying He will be our peace! What a blessing! He really is if we look to Him! The Psalm reminds us that, "Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved!" We can be saved when we seek Him! What a blessing! God is so good to us. He gave us Jesus for this reason! All we need to do is follow Him, seek Him, accept His will be done in our lives! We no longer need to follow rituals of old like the Jews follow, like in the Old Testament, we only need to follow Jesus and accept the will of God in our lives, God does not want or require us to follow such rituals or laws from long ago, we only need to follow Jesus, who died for our sins, who is the Salvation of the world! Jesus said, "Behold, I come to do your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second. By this “will,”  we have been consecrated  through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Let His will be done! Seek Him, follow Him, imitate Him, reflect Him! As we know from the Gospel, Mary did! Will you? Will you know and live the peace of Christ in you? May it be done to me according to Your word!


Fourth Sunday of Advent


Reading I
Micah 5:1-4a

    Thus says the LORD:
    You, Bethlehem-Ephrathah
        too small to be among the clans of Judah,
    from you shall come forth for me
        one who is to be ruler in Israel;
    whose origin is from of old,
        from ancient times.
    Therefore the Lord will give them up, until the time
        when she who is to give birth has borne,
    and the rest of his kindred shall return
        to the children of Israel.
    He shall stand firm and shepherd his flock
        by the strength of the LORD,
        in the majestic name of the LORD, his God;
    and they shall remain, for now his greatness
        shall reach to the ends of the earth;
        he shall be peace.






Responsorial Psalm
Ps 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19.
R. (4)  Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.

O shepherd of Israel, hearken,
    from your throne upon the cherubim, shine forth.
Rouse your power,
    and come to save us.
R. Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
Once again, O LORD of hosts,
    look down from heaven, and see;
take care of this vine,
    and protect what your right hand has planted
the son of man whom you yourself made strong.
R. Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
May your help be with the man of your right hand,
    with the son of man whom you yourself made strong.
Then we will no more withdraw from you;
    give us new life, and we will call upon your name.
R. Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.






Reading II
Hebrews 10:5-10

Brothers and sisters:
When Christ came into the world, he said:
    “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
        but a body you prepared for me;
    in holocausts and sin offerings you took no delight.
    Then I said, ‘As is written of me in the scroll,
    behold, I come to do your will, O God.’“
First he says, “Sacrifices and offerings,
holocausts and sin offerings, 
you neither desired nor delighted in.”
These are offered according to the law.
Then he says, :Behold, I come to do your will.”
He takes away the first to establish the second.
By this “will,”  we have been consecrated 
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.



Alleluia
Lk 1:38
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.
May it be done to me according to your word.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.






Gospel
Luke 1:39-45

Mary set out
and traveled to the hill country in haste
to a town of Judah, 
where she entered the house of Zechariah
and greeted Elizabeth.
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting,
the infant leaped in her womb, 
and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, 
cried out in a loud voice and said, 
“Blessed are you among women, 
and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
And how does this happen to me, 
that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, 
the infant in my womb leaped for joy.
Blessed are you who believed
that what was spoken to you by the Lord
would be fulfilled.”






















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