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This plan follows the Sunday liturgy:     reading + psalm + reading + gospel                  From  www.simplebible.info            Previous R-R-P 

O Holy Spirit, please guide me as I read these passages for today.                     
May these passages give me hope, strength, wisdom, compassion, courage and peace for my daily life             Chinese text


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R-R-P  Reading - Reflection - Prayer   Dec 23, 2012   
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Readings for the Fourth Sunday of Advent

The first reading:  The Messiah will be a person of peace, a Shepherd, and will be born in Bethlehem

Responsorial Psalm: Prayer to the Shepherd for help

The second reading: The obedience of the Messiah

Gospel:  The teenage Mary visits her older cousin Elizabeth

Reflection:
Mary did not sit at home with her feet up watching TV thinking about herself and her baby.
No, as quickly as she could she went (walking?, by donkey?, with a group?) more than 100 km to visit Elizabeth.
Jesus is not someone for keeping to ourselves. Jesus is someone to be shared with others.
And that sharing, when we help others come in contact with Jesus, is a happy moment
 ....as it was for Mary and Elizabeth when the baby John the Baptist jumped for joy in his mother's womb
because Jesus was near in Mary's womb. 
Despite the sadnesses and crosses of life, our Christianity should contain a strong element of "jumping for Jesus"!

Prayer: Jesus, son of Mary, may we do more to help other people know the joy of knowing you

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