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Advent Weekday

IC Novena – Day 7

First Reading

Isaiah 11:1-10

1There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.

2And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.

3And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide by what his ears hear;

4but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.

5Righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins.

6The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.

7The cow and the bear shall feed; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

8The sucking child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den.

9They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.

10In that day the root of Jesse shall stand as an ensign to the peoples; him shall the nations seek, and his dwellings shall be glorious.

Responsorial Psalm

Psalms 72:1, 7-8, 12-13, 17

1Give the king thy justice, O God, and thy righteousness to the royal son!

7In his days may righteousness flourish, and peace abound, till the moon be no more!

8May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth!

12For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper.

13He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy.

17May his name endure for ever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May men bless themselves by him, all nations call him blessed!

Gospel

Luke 10:21-24

21In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; yea, Father, for such was thy gracious will.

22All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

23Then turning to the disciples he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see what you see!

24For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.”