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Page Background Saturday of the Fourth Week of Advent

2 Samuel 7:1-5, 8B-12, 14A, 16

Psalm 89:2-3, 4-5, 27 AND 29

Luke 1:67-79

Summary

"Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel"

Reflection

Tomorrow will be

celebrating the birth

of Christ. The gift

of

Christmas is for us

to move deeper in-

to our faith and

asked God to

give us the grace to

see ourselves a sign

of blessings to oth-

ers.

We are created to

be in relationship

with one another in

times of joy and

sadness, triumph

and challenges, the new and old, like in

story in our Gospel reading for today

from St. Luke. In the midst of Zechari-

ah's doubt of his wife's pregnancy, he

completely trusted God for giving him

the greatest blessings of his life - his son