{"id":30121,"date":"2022-12-21 06:00:00","modified":"2022-12-19 09:45:43","title":"Daily Reading for Wednesday, December 21st, 2022","excerpt":"","thumbnail":"https:\/\/catholiccambodia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/211222.png","link":"https:\/\/catholiccambodia.org\/?p=30121&lang=en","content":"<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} --><br\/><h4>Daily Reading for Wednesday December 21, 2022<\/h4><br\/><!-- \/wp:heading --><br\/><br\/><!-- wp:paragraph --><br\/><p>Reading 1,\u00a0<em>Zephaniah 3:14-18<\/em><br>Responsorial Psalm,\u00a0<em>Psalms 33:2-3, 11-12, 20-21<\/em><br>Gospel,\u00a0<em>Luke 1:39-45<\/em><\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><br\/><br\/><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --><br\/><h3>Reading 1, Zephaniah 3:14-18<\/h3><br\/><!-- \/wp:heading --><br\/><br\/><!-- wp:paragraph --><br\/><p>14 Shout for joy, daughter of Zion, Israel, shout aloud! Rejoice, exult with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem!<\/p><p>15 Yahweh has repealed your sentence; he has turned your enemy away. Yahweh is king among you, Israel, you have nothing more to fear.<\/p><p>16 When that Day comes, the message for Jerusalem will be: Zion, have no fear, do not let your hands fall limp.<\/p><p>17 Yahweh your God is there with you, the warrior-Saviour. He will rejoice over you with happy song, he will renew you by his love, he will dance with shouts of joy for you,<\/p><p>18 as on a day of festival. I have taken away your misfortune, no longer need you bear the disgrace of it.<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><br\/><br\/><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --><br\/><h3>Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 33:2-3, 11-12, 20-21<\/h3><br\/><!-- \/wp:heading --><br\/><br\/><!-- wp:paragraph --><br\/><p>2 Give thanks to Yahweh on the lyre, play for him on the ten-stringed lyre.<\/p><p>3 Sing to him a new song, make sweet music for your cry of victory.<\/p><p>11 but Yahweh's own plan stands firm for ever, his heart's counsel from age to age.<\/p><p>12 How blessed the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people he has chosen as his heritage.<\/p><p>20 We are waiting for Yahweh; he is our help and our shield,<\/p><p>21 for in him our heart rejoices, in his holy name we trust.<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><br\/><br\/><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --><br\/><h3>Gospel, Luke 1:39-45<\/h3><br\/><!-- \/wp:heading --><br\/><br\/><!-- wp:paragraph --><br\/><p>39 Mary set out at that time and went as quickly as she could into the hill country to a town in Judah.<\/p><p>40 She went into Zechariah's house and greeted Elizabeth.<\/p><p>41 Now it happened that as soon as Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the child leapt in her womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.<\/p><p>42 She gave a loud cry and said, 'Of all women you are the most blessed, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.<\/p><p>43 Why should I be honoured with a visit from the mother of my Lord?<\/p><p>44 Look, the moment your greeting reached my ears, the child in my womb leapt for joy.<\/p><p>45 Yes, blessed is she who believed that the promise made her by the Lord would be fulfilled.'<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","categories":[{"id":160,"name":"Daily Bible"}],"tags":[]}