How long we have
waited for you, Jesus!
It could be said we
are waiting still--
at times you seem to
hide yourself.
Yet you are the one to
bring us our salvation,
the pioneer made
perfect through suffering,
born to save your
people from their sins.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 93; 150; 89:1-18; 89:19-52
Isa. 62:6-7, 10-12
Heb. 2:10-18
Matt. 1:18-25
Selected Verses
Ps. 89:46a
How
long, O LORD? Will you hide yourself
forever?
Isa. 62:11a
The LORD has proclaimed
to the end of the earth:
Say to daughter Zion,
“See, your salvation comes…”
to the end of the earth:
Say to daughter Zion,
“See, your salvation comes…”
Heb. 2:10
It
was fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing
many children to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect
through sufferings.
Matt. 1:21
"…[Mary]
will bear a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people
from their sins.” [An angel of the Lord
to Joseph]
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