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Following is a link to readings from the Revised Common Lectionary for the Fourth Sunday of Advent for 2023.

It begins:

2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16
7:1 Now when the king was settled in his house, and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies around him,

7:2 the king said to the prophet Nathan,...

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Following is a link to readings from the Revised Common Lectionary for the Third Sunday of Advent for 2023.

It begins:

Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11
61:1 The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenheart...

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Following is a link to readings from the Revised Common Lectionary for the Second Sunday of Advent for 2023.

It begins:

Isaiah 40:1-11
40:1 Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God.

40:2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that she has served her term, that her penalty is paid, tha...

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Following is a link to readings from the Revised Common Lectionary for the First Sunday of Advent for 2023.

It begins:

Isaiah 64:1-9
64:1 O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence--

64:2 as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire...

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