The 11th of December, 2020 is Friday in the Second Week of Advent. The Bible scriptures for the holy mass readings for this day came from the 2021 Liturgical Calendar.
Reading 1: IS 48:17-19
The first reading from the Book of Isaiah.
Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
Your offspring also would have been as the sand and the descendants of your body like its grains. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”
Responsorial Psalm: PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6
Response: “He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
R: “He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
R: “He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
R: “He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Gospel of the Day: MT 11:16-19
From the gospel verse according to Matthew.
“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”
Other Celebration
An optional celebration on this day is the Memorial of Saint Damasus I, Pope.