Catholic Daily Reading 11th December 2012

"Isa 40:1  Be comforted, be comforted, my people, saith your God.
Isa 40:2  Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her: for her evil is come to an end, her iniquity is forgiven: she hath received of the hand of the Lord double for all her sins.
Isa 40:3  The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God.
Isa 40:4  Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough ways plain.
Isa 40:5  And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see, that the mouth of the Lord hath spoken.
Isa 40:6  The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field.
Isa 40:7  The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass:
Isa 40:8  The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen: but the word of our Lord endureth for ever.
Isa 40:9  Get thee up upon a high mountain, thou that bringest good tidings to Sion: lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest good tidings to Jerusalem: lift it up, fear not. Say to the cities of Juda: Behold your God:
Isa 40:10  Behold the Lord God shall come with strength, and his arm shall rule: Behold his reward is with him and his work is before him.
Isa 40:11  He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather together the lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with young."
Isaiah 40:1-11

Psa 96:1  A canticle for David himself, when the house was built after the captivity. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: sing to the Lord, all the earth.
Psa 96:2  Sing ye to the Lord and bless his name: shew forth his salvation from day to day.
Psa 96:3  Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his wonders among all people.
Psa 96:10  Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath reigned. For he hath corrected the world, which shall not be moved: he will judge the people with justice.
Psa 96:11  Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the sea be moved, and the fulness thereof:
Psa 96:12  The fields and all things that are in them shall be joyful. Then shall all the trees of the woods rejoice
Psa 96:13  before the face of the Lord, because he cometh: because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with his truth."
Psalm 96:1-3,10-13

"Mat 18:12  What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and goeth to seek that which is gone astray?
Mat 18:13  And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth more for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray.
Mat 18:14  Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish."
Matthew 18:12-14