The Gospel of the day December 2, 2025

Tuesday of the First Week of Advent

First Reading

The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him.

From the Book of the Prophet Isaiah
Is 11:1-10

On that day,
A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse,
and a branch shall grow out of his roots.
The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him,
the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
His delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
He shall not judge by what his eyes see,
or decide by what his ears hear;
but with righteousness he shall judge the poor,
and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
he shall strike the ruthless with the rod of his mouth,
and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
Righteousness shall be the belt around his waist,
and faithfulness the belt around his loins.
The wolf shall live with the lamb,
the leopard shall lie down with the kid,
the calf and the lion and the fatling together,
and a little child shall lead them.
The cow and the bear shall graze,
their young shall lie down together;
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp,
and the weaned child shall put its hand on the viper’s den.
They will not hurt or destroy
on all my holy mountain;
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.
On that day the root of Jesse
shall stand as a signal for the peoples;
the nations shall seek him out,
and his dwelling shall be glorious.

The Word of God.

Responsorial Psalm

From Psalm 71 (72)

R. In his days shall justice flourish, and peace abound.
Or:
R. Come, Lord, King of justice and peace.

O God, give your judgment to the king,
and your justice to the king’s son;
that he may judge your people with righteousness,
and your poor with justice. R.

In his days may righteousness flourish,
and peace abound, till the moon is no more.
May he have dominion from sea to sea,
and from the River to the ends of the earth. R.

For he shall deliver the needy when they call,
the poor and those who have no helper.
He will have pity on the weak and the needy,
and save the lives of the needy. R.

May his name endure forever,
his name continue as long as the sun.
May all the tribes of the earth be blessed in him,
may all the nations call him blessed. R.

Gospel Acclamation

Alleluia, alleluia.

Behold, the Lord our God comes with great power,
he will illuminate the eyes of his servants.

Alleluia.

The Gospel of the Day, December 2, 2025

Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit.

From the Gospel according to Luke
Lk 10:21-24

At that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
Then turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.”

The Word of God.

Letter to Diognetus (c. 200)

Chapters 7-8; SC 33bis (from Liturgia.it, rev.)

God gave us everything in his Son

In meekness and goodness, as a king sends his son, God sent God, the Word, among men; he sent him as one who saves, to persuade, not to do violence. Violence is not fitting for God. He sent him to call, not to accuse; he sent him out of love, not to judge. (…) No man saw him and knew him, but he himself revealed himself to us. He revealed himself through faith, by which alone it is granted to see God. God, Lord and Creator of the universe, who made all things and established them in order, not only showed himself a friend of humankind, but also magnanimous. Such he always was, is, and will be: excellent, good, meek, and truthful, the only good one. Having thought out a great and ineffable plan, he communicated it only to the Son. As long as he kept it in mystery and guarded his wise will, he seemed not to care for us or think of us. After he revealed and manifested through his beloved Son what he had established from the beginning, he granted us everything together, that is, to participate in his benefits, to see them, and to understand them. Who among us would have expected it?

THE WORDS OF THE POPES

The little ones are those who, like children, feel needy and not self-sufficient, are open to God and let themselves be astonished by his works. They know how to read his signs, marvel at the miracles of his love! (…) Our life, if we think about it, is full of miracles: it is full of gestures of love, signs of God’s goodness. Faced with them, however, even our heart can remain indifferent and become habitual, curious but incapable of astonishment, of letting itself be “impressed.” A closed heart, a armored heart, and this one does not have the capacity to be astonished. “To impress” is a beautiful verb that brings to mind a photographer’s film. Here is the right attitude before the works of God: to photograph his works in the mind, so that they are imprinted on the heart, and then to develop them in life, through so many gestures of goodness, so that the “photograph” of God-love becomes increasingly luminous in us and through us. (Pope Francis – Angelus, July 9, 2023)