SQPN: Verbum Domini

2015 Dec 17 Thu: 3rd week of Advent ==============================================A reading from the Book of GenesisGn 49: 2. 8-10==============================================[2] Assemble and hear, O sons of Jacob,and hearken to Israel your father.[8] Judah, your brothers shall praise you;your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;your father's sons shall bow down before you.[9] Judah is a lion's whelp;from the prey, my son, you have gone up.He stooped down, he couched as a lion,and as a lioness; who dares rouse him up?[10] The scepter shall not depart from Judah,nor the ruler's staff from between his feet,until he comes to whom it belongs;and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.The Word of the Lord ==============================================From Psalm 72Ps 72: 1-2. 3-4ab. 7-8. 17==============================================Justice shall flourish in his time, and fullness of peace for ever.[1] Give the king thy justice, O God,and thy righteousness to the royal son![2] May he judge thy people