Daily Readings and Homily, Wednesday December 17th, 2025
Fr. Larry Richards of The Reason For Our Hope Foundation Podcast
Father Larry Richards
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | A reading from the book of Genesis. |
| 0:08.0 | Jacob called his sons and said to them, |
| 0:11.0 | Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob. |
| 0:14.0 | Listen to Israel, your father. |
| 0:17.0 | You, Judah, shall be your brother, you shall your brother's praise, your hand on the neck of your enemies. |
| 0:23.6 | The sons of your father shall bow down to you. |
| 0:26.6 | Judah, like a lion's whelp. |
| 0:29.6 | You have grown up on prey, my son. |
| 0:32.6 | He crouches like a lion incumbent, the king of beasts. |
| 0:36.6 | Who would dare rouse him? The sceptors shall never |
| 0:39.9 | depart from Judah or the mace between his legs, while tribute is brought to him, and he receives |
| 0:47.4 | the people's homage. The word of the Lord. Justice shall flourish in his time and fullness of peace forever. |
| 0:57.8 | Justice shall flourish in his time and fullness of peace forever. |
| 1:02.9 | O God, with your judgment endow the king, and with your justice the king's son. |
| 1:08.2 | He shall govern your people with justice and your afflicted ones with judgment. |
| 1:12.9 | Justice shall flourish in his time and fullness of peace forever. The mountains shall yield peace for |
| 1:20.2 | the people and the hills justice. He shall defend the afflicted among the people and save the children of the poor. |
| 1:29.5 | Justice shall flourish in his time and fullness of peace forever. |
| 1:34.7 | Justice shall flower in his days and profound peace till the moon be no more. |
| 1:40.2 | May he rule from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth. |
| 1:45.0 | Justice shall flourish in his time and fullness of peace forever. |
| 1:50.2 | May his name be blessed forever as long as the sun his name shall remain. |
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