Gospel of December 3 2018
Book of Isaiah 2,1-5.
Vision of Isaiah son of Amoz saw about Judah and Jerusalem.
At the end of the days, the mountain of the temple of the Lord will be erected on the top of the mountains and will be higher than the hills; all nations will flow to it.
Many peoples will come and say: "Come, let us go up the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob, so that he will show us his ways and we can walk his paths." For the law will come out of Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He will judge between peoples and be arbitrator among many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares, their spears into sickles; one people will no longer lift the sword against another people, they will no longer practice the art of war.
House of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.
Salmi 122(121),1-2.3-4ab.8-9.
What joy when they said to me:
"We will go to the house of the Lord."
And now our feet stop
at your gates, Jerusalem!
Jerusalem is built
as a firm and compact city.
There the tribes go up together,
the tribes of the Lord.
They rise, according to the law of Israel,
to praise the name of the Lord.
For my brothers and friends
I will say: "Peace be upon you!".
For the house of the Lord our God,
I will ask you for the good.
From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew 8,5-11.
At that time, when Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion met him who begged him:
"Lord, my servant lies paralyzed in the house and suffers terribly."
Jesus replied, "I will come and heal him."
But the centurion went on: "Lord, I am not worthy of you coming under my roof, just say a word and my servant will be healed.
Because I, too, who am a subordinate, have soldiers under me and I say to one: Do this, and he does it ».
On hearing this, Jesus was admired and said to those who followed him: «Truly I tell you, I have not found such great faith with anyone in Israel.
Now I tell you that many will come from east and west, and will recline with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. "