Third Sunday of Advent
Zeph 3:14-18; Phil 4:4-7; Lk 3:10-18 (Year C)
"Truly, God is my salvation; I trust, I shall not fear. For the Lord is my strength, my song, he became my saviour. With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.”
The responsorial psalm articulates the mounting joy with which the Third Sunday of Advent leads us ever closer to the celebration of Christmas. The Prophet Zephaniah, speaking to exiles returning to a Jerusalem laid in ruins, leads us in this chorus of mounting joy: “Shout for joy daughter of Zion. Rejoice, exult with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem! The Lord has repealed your sentence; he has driven your enemies away.”
