THE GOSPEL
Matthew 24:37-44Therefore, stay awake! … So too, you also must be prepared.
Come,
Lord Jesus,
make us ready
for your kingdom.
Let us find you
in the crimson colored dusk,
in the crescent moon and flying geese,
Let us see you
in laughing children,
in our brothers and sisters
everywhere.
Make us
always awake, watching for you, prepared,
with our hearts open
wide.
Teach us how to “greet you
the days we meet you
and bless when we
understand.”
Quotation from “The Wreck of the Deutschland” by G.M. Hopkins
THE FIRST READING
Isaiah 2:1-5
They will beat their swords into plowshares.
No
more war!
War never again!
Let us drop our weapons;
turn our missile cruisers into lifeboats.
We yearn to walk in your light, washed in your peace.
Let us rise from every village and city on earth,
and climb your holy mountain
together.
THE SECOND READING
Romans 13:11-14
Let us throw off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.
Now
is the hour to
rouse from our sleep
and take up the work of the day.
Jesus, be our light this day.
Throw darkness
out.
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