Friday of the Second Week of Advent: Office of Readings
Hymn
First Antiphon: Lord, in your anger, do not punish me.
Psalm 38
Second Antiphon: Lord, you know all my longings
Psalm 38
Third Antiphon: I confess my guilt to you, Lord; do not abandon me, for you are my savior.
Psalm 38
Verse: Let your compassion come upon me, Lord.
Resp: Your salvation, true to your promise.
First Reading: Is 27:1-13
Response: They will gather his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
Second Reading: From a treatise Against Heresies by St. Irenaeus, bishop
Response: Behold you shall conceive and bear a son, and he will be called the Son of the Mos High
Presentation of the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) from The Liturgy of the Hours (Four Volumes) © 1975, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. The texts of Biblical readings are reproduced from the New American Bible © 1975