November 30th, 2005, 1st Sunday of Advent.

A reading from the book of Isaiah.

This is what Isaiah, son of Amos, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

In days to come, the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established as the highest mountain and raised above the hills.

All nations shall stream toward it. Many peoples shall come and say,

Come, let us climb the Lord's mountain to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths. For from Zion

shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the

nations and impose terms on many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.

One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again.

O House of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.

The Word of the Lord.

Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.

Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.

I rejoiced because they said to me we will go up to the house of the Lord

and now we have set foot within your gates O Jerusalem

Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord. Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.

Jerusalem built as a city with compact unity.

To it the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord. let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord

let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.

According to the decree for Israel,

to give thanks to the name of the Lord,

in it are set up judgment seeds,

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