A reading from
the holy Gospel according to Matthew11:16-19
Jesus said to the crowds: “To what shall I compare this generation? It is like children who sit in marketplaces and call to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance, we sang a dirge but you did not mourn.’ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they said, ‘He is possessed by a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is vindicated by her works.”
The Gospel of the Lord.
Prayer over the Offerings
Be pleased, O Lord, with our humble prayers
and offerings,
and, since we have no merits to plead our cause,
come, we pray, to our rescue
with the protection of your mercy.
Through Christ our Lord.
Preface I of Advent page 217
Communion Antiphon Cf. Phil 3:20-21
We await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,/ who will change our mortal bodies,/ to conform with his glorified body.
Prayer after Communion
Replenished by the food of spiritual nourishment,
we humbly beseech you, O Lord,
that, through our partaking in this mystery,
you may teach us to judge wisely the things of earth
and hold firm to the things of heaven.
Through Christ our Lord.
