Second Week of Advent Readings

by | Dec 7, 2008 | Faith, Family

  • Sunday
    Luke 2:15-16
    15 When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.” 16 And they went with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
  • Monday
    Luke 2:17-18
    17 And when they saw it they made known the saying which had been told them concerning this child; 18 and all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them.
  • Tuesday
    Luke 2:19
    19But Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart.
  • Wednesday
    Luke 2:20
    20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.
  • Thursday
    Luke 2:21
    21And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
  • Friday
    Matthew 2:1-2
    1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, 2“Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East, and have come to worship him.”
  • Saturday
    Matthew 2:3-6
    3 When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him; 4 and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. 5They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it is written by the prophet: 6 ‘And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will govern my people Israel.'”