This is the Sunday sermon series for the 4th Sunday of Advent in the traditional Latin Mass calendar.

The lesson comes from the Apostle Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, chapter 4 verses 1 through 5.

Brethren, let a man so account us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Now here it is required in stewards that a man be found trustworthy.

But with me, it is a very small matter to be judged by you or by man's tribunal.

Nay, I don't even judge my own self.

For I have nothing on my conscience, yet I am not thereby justified, but he who judges me

is the Lord. Therefore, pass no judgment before the time until the Lord comes. Who will

both bring to light the things hidden in darkness, and make manifest the counsels of hearts,

and then everyone will have his praise from God.

A continuation of the Holy Gospel, according to St. Luke, chapter 3, verse 1 through 6.

Now in the 15th year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Punchus Pilate was procurator of Judea, and Herod, Tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip, his brother, tetrarch

of the district of Iterreanitis, and Licinius, tetrach of Abilene.

During the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of

Zachary in the desert, and he went into all the region about the Jordan, preaching

a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words

of Isaiah the prophet, the voice of one crying in the desert, make ready the way of the Lord,

make straight his paths.

Every valley shall be filled filled and every mountain and hill

shall be brought low, and the crooked ways shall be made straight, and the rough ways smooth,

and all mankind shall see the salvation of God. Thus are the words of the Holy Gospel.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.

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