FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT C Lectionary #3
The readings present three ways of looking at the future. There are those who look to the future as a time of promise (first reading and Gospel). There are those who believe that worrying about the future or the past is useless; what counts is the way you live day by day (psalm and second reading). And there are those who take a more paranoid approach to life: Fear the future (Gospel).
Jeremiah 33:14-16. The prophet speaks to the people in exile, promising them a future of peace and justice built around the hope for a restored Davidic monarchy in a restored Jerusalem.
Psalm of the Day: Ps (24) 25. This psalm is really an individual lament, though the lamenting sections are excised from the verses used today. The psalm is edited to focus on the “way” that the Lord teaches, especially through the Torah: the way that leads to truth and justice.
A Tí, Señor (García) FYC 187
A Tí, Señor (Rangel) GP 186/JS 27
A Tí, Señor (Sosa) FYC 188
A Tí, Señor/To You, O Lord (Hurd) FYC 189/JS 27
I Lift My Soul to You (Weckler) WC 389/WS
I Lift Up My Soul (Manion) GP 184/MI-BB
Levanto Mi Alma (Peña) GC 37/RS 52
To You I Lift Up My Soul (Hughes) LMGM 499
To You I Lift Up My Soul (Murray/Gelineau) WOR 33
To You, O God, I Lift Up My Soul (Hurd) SP2 10/JS 691
To You, O Lord PSL 2/SS
To You, O Lord (Alstott) JS 559/BB
To You, O Lord (Artman) SO 9
To You, O Lord (Berrell) WC 390
To You, O Lord (Chepponis/Janco) PRM C1/PMB 556/WS
To You, O Lord (Dameans) PCY6 49
To You, O Lord (Gelineau/Thompson) WOR 768/RS 50/LPGG 768
To You, O Lord (Guimont) RS 51/GC2 900/LPMG 3/SS
To You, O Lord (Haas) PCY9 25
To You, O Lord (Harbor) LMGM 500
To You, O Lord (Haugen) GC 36/GC2 26/RS 53/PCY1 4/WC 388/SS
To You, O Lord (Haugen/Fowler) CBW 16
To You, O Lord (Held) IL 52
To You, O Lord (Joncas) GP 185/SP5 18/MI-BB/JS 26
To You, O Lord (Pishner) GC2 28
To You, O Lord (Schiavone) JS 880/LP 10
To You, O Lord/A Tí, Señor (Schiavone) SS
To You, O Lord (Soper) JS 28/GP 183/SP1 20/MI-BB
To You, O Lord (Willcock) PFS 2
1 Thessalonians 3:12–4:2. Paul's practical advice to a community concerned about when the Lord Jesus will return: Keep on living the way I taught you.
Luke 21:25-28, 34-36. This “apocalyptic” sermon uses some common expectations of the time—a kind of cosmic warfare that echoes in the heavens the war between good and evil for human souls—to console believers because “your redemption is at hand.” In order to be prepared for that redemption, however, they need to live in vigilance and prayer.
Songs for the Liturgy
A Season of Light (1,2) WC 466/WS
Advent Gathering (1) GC 324/RS 492
Advent Gathering Song (1) GC2 338/SS
Awake, Awake, Fling Off the Night (2) CBW 304
Bread of Life B Advent/Christmas Setting (2) BB
Christ, Be Our Light (2) GP 656/MI-BB/JS 661/WC 924/GC2 512/WS
Christ, Circle Round Us (1,G) BB
Come, Light of the World (1,2) GC2 328/WC 459/WS
Come, Lord, and Tarry Not (1,G) WOR 366/LMGM 11
Come, Lord Jesus (1,G) BB
Come to Set Us Free (1) JS 180/GC 338
Find Us Ready (2,G) GC2 342
God of All People (1) GC 331/GC2 349/CBW 314/SS
Hold Me in Life (Ps) JS 702/GC 599/GP 596/MI-BB
In the Day of the Lord (1) GP 722/MI-BB/JS 685
In the Lord I'll Be Ever Thankful (1,Ps) RS 703/GC 566/GC2 546/WC 832/WS/SS
Lead Us to Your Light (1) GC2 326
Lift Up Your Heads, O Gates (1,G) PMB 354
Lord, Come and Save Us (1,2) GP 308/GC 140
Maranatha (1,G) GP 295/BB
Maranatha, Come (1) GC2 335/SS
Maranatha, Lord Messiah (1) GC2 324/SS
My Lord! What a Morning (G) LMGM 9
My Lord Will Come Again (1,G) GC 769
Now the Day of the Lord Is at Hand (G) WOR 687
O, How I Long to See (1) GP 306
Psalm 25: To You, O Lord (E)
Rejoice, the Lord Is King (G) WOR 493/LMGM 93/JS 478/RS 627/GC 487/GC2 493/WC 720/MI-BB/PMB 355/SS
Save Us, O Lord (1,2) GP 301/JS 555/MI-BB
Soon and Very Soon (1,G) LMGM 4/GC 770/GC2 758/JS 683/RS 870/GP 723/WC 941/MI-BB/WS/PMB 513/SS
The Advent (Coming) of Our God (G) JS 322/CBW 315/WC 470/BB/PMB 191/SS
The Day Is Near (1) GC 768
The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns (1,G) WOR 373/GP 307/LMGM 1/GC 320/GC2 347/JS 319/RS 497/CBW 318/WC 457, 468/BB/WS/PMB 186/SS
Thy Kingdom Come (1,G) GP 719/GC 656/RS 776
*To You, O Lord, I Lift My Soul (E,Ps) WC 465/BFW 1/SS
*To You, O Lord, I Pray (E,Ps) IH 1
Wake, Awake (G) WOR 371/JS 332/RS 489/GC 335/WC 458/BB/PMB 185/SS
Walk in the Reign (1) GC 319/GC2 325
When the Lord in Glory Comes (1,G) RS 868/GC 765/HG 100