Thursday of the First Week of Advent

Official Translation

Reading 1 – Isaiah 26.1-6

In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
“We have a strong city; he builds walls and bulwarks for our salvation.
Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the faith may enter in.
You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stuck on you, because he trusts in you.
Trust in the LORD forever: for in the LORD GOD there is everlasting strength.
For he brings down those who dwell on high.
The lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he brings it to the dust.
The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

Responsorial – Psalm 118.1+8-9, 19-21, 25-27a Resp. 26a

R. Blessed be he who comes in the name of the LORD. or R. Alleluia

O give thanks to the LORD; for he is good,
for his mercy endures forever.
It is better to trust in the LORD
than to put confidence in man.
It is better to trust in the LORD
than to put confidence in princes.

R. Blessed be he who comes in the name of the LORD. or R. Alleluia

Open to me the gates of righteousness.
I will enter and I will praise the LORD.
This is the gate of the LORD,
the righteous shall enter.
I will praise you, for you have heard me,
and have become my salvation.

R. Blessed be he who comes in the name of the LORD. or R. Alleluia

Save now, I beseech you, O LORD.
O LORD, I beseech you, send now prosperity.
Blessed be he who comes in the name of the LORD.
we have blessed you from the house of the LORD.
God is the LORD, he has shown us light.

R. Blessed be he who comes in the name of the LORD. or R. Alleluia

Gospel – Matthew 7.21, 24-27

Jesus said to his disciples,
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven;
but the doer of the will of my Father in heaven.
All, therefore who hear these my words and do them,
is like a wise man, who built his house on the rock.
The rain fell; the floods came; and the winds blew,
and beat upon that house; and it did not fall
for it was founded on the rock.
And every hearer of these my words, who does not do them,
is like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand:
The rain fell; the floods came; and the winds blew and beat on that house;
and it fell and great was the fall of it.