Daily Scripture Readings
Readings for the Third Week of Advent, December 15 – December 21, 2024
Collect for the Third Sunday in Advent (used every day of the week): O LORD Jesu Christ, who at thy first coming didst send thy messenger to prepare thy way before thee: Grant that the ministers and stewards of thy mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready thy way, by turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, that at thy second coming to judge the world we may be found an acceptable people in thy sight; who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
Collect for St. Thomas the Apostle (used Friday evening and all day Saturday, December 21): ALMIGHTY and everliving God, who for the more confirmation of the faith didst suffer thy holy Apostle Thomas to be doubtful in thy Son’s resurrection: Grant us so perfectly, and without all doubt, to believe in thy Son Jesus Christ, that our faith in thy sight may never be reproved. Hear us, O Lord, through the same Jesus Christ, to whom, with thee and the Holy Spirit, be all honour and glory, now and for evermore. Amen.
| Advent III | Morning Prayer | Evening Prayer | ||
| 1st Lesson | 2nd Lesson | 1st Lesson | 2nd Lesson | |
| Sunday | Isaiah 25:1-9 | Matthew 25:1-30 | Isaiah 26:1-13 | 1 Timothy 1:12 – 2:8 |
| Monday | Isaiah 42:1-17 | Mark 7:1-23 | Isaiah 42:18 – 43:13 | Revelation 18 |
| Tuesday | Isaiah 43:14 – 44:5 | Mark 7:24 – 8:10 | Isaiah 44:6-23 | Revelation 19 |
| Wednesday | Isaiah 44:24-45:13 | Mark 8:11 – 9:1 | Isaiah 45:14-25 | Revelation 20 |
| Thursday | Isaiah 46 | Mark 9:2-32 | Isaiah 47 | Revelation 21:1-14 |
| Friday | Isaiah 48 | Mark 9:33-50 | Eve of St. Thomas, Apostle | |
| 2 Samuel 15. 17-21 | John 11. 1-16 | |||
| St. Thomas, Apostle
Saturday, Dec 21 |
Job 42. 1-6 | John 14. 1-7 | Ecclesiasticus 2 | 1 Peter 1. 3-9 |
Readings for the Fourth Week of Advent and the beginning of Christmastide, December 22 – December 28, 2024
Collect for the Fourth Sunday in Advent (used Sunday, Monday and Tuesday morning): RAISE up, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy power, and come among us, and with great might succour us; that whereas, through our sins and wickedness, we are sore let and hindered in running the race that is set before us, thy bountiful grace and mercy may speedily help and deliver us; who with the Father and the Holy Spirit livest and reignest, one God, world without end. Amen.
Collect for Christmas (used beginning Christmas Eve through the 12 days of Christmas, including January 5): ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us thy only begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure Virgin: Grant that we being regenerate, and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit; through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
Collect for St. Stephen, Deacon and Martyr (used Thursday, Dec 26): GRANT, O Lord, that in all our sufferings here upon earth, for the testimony of thy truth, we may stedfastly look up to heaven, and by faith behold the glory that shall be revealed; and, being filled with the Holy Spirit, may learn to love and bless our persecutors, by the example of thy first Martyr Saint Stephen, who prayed for his murderers to thee, O blessed Jesus, who standest at the right hand of God to succour all those that suffer for thee, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen.
Collect for St. John, the Evangelist (used Friday, Dec 27): MERCIFUL Lord, we beseech thee to cast thy bright beams of light upon thy Church, that it being enlightened by the doctrine of thy blessed Apostle and Evangelist Saint John may so walk in the light of thy truth, that it may at length attain to the light of everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Collect for The Holy Innocents (used Saturday, Dec 28): O ALMIGHTY God, who out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast ordained strength, and madest infants to glorify thee by their deaths: Mortify and kill all vices in us, and so strengthen us by thy grace, that by the innocency of our lives, and constancy of our faith, even unto death, we may glorify thy holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
| Advent IV and Beginning of Christmastide | Morning Prayer | Evening Prayer | ||
| 1st Lesson | 2nd Lesson | 1st Lesson | 2nd Lesson | |
| Sunday | Isaiah 35 | Matthew 25:31-46 | Isaiah 40:1-11 | 2nd Peter 3:1-14 |
| Monday | Isaiah 51:1-16 | Mark 10:32-end | Isaiah 51:17-52:12 | Jude 1-16 |
| Christmas Eve | Isaiah 52:13-53:end | Mark 11:1-26 | Zechariah 2:10-end | Hebrews 2:10-18 |
| Christmas Day | Isaiah 9:2-7 | Matthew 1:18-25 | Isaiah 7:10-14 | 1st John 4:7-end |
| St. Stephen (Dec 26) | Genesis 4:1-10 | Acts 6 | 2 Chronicles 24:15-22 | Acts 7:59 – 8:8 |
| St. John, Evangelist (Dec 27) | Exodus 33:9-end | John 13:21-35 | Isaiah 6:1-8 | 1 John 5:1-12 |
| Holy Innocents (Dec 28) | Baruch 4:21-27 | Revelation 6:9-11 | Jeremiah 31:1-17 | Matthew 18:1-10 |