SQPN: Verbum Domini

2015 Dec 16 Wed: 3rd week of Advent ==============================================A reading from the Book of the prophet IsaiahIs 45: 6c-8. 18. 21c-25==============================================I am the LORD, and there is no other.[7] I form light and create darkness,I make weal and create woe,I am the LORD, who do all these things.[8] "Shower, O heavens, from above,and let the skies rain down righteousness;let the earth open, that salvation may sprout forth,and let it cause righteousness to spring up also;I the LORD have created it.[18] For thus says the LORD,who created the heavens(he is God!),who formed the earth and made it(he established it;he did not create it a chaos,he formed it to be inhabited!):"I am the LORD, and there is no other.Who told this long ago?Who declared it of old?Was it not I, the LORD?And there is no other god besides me,a righteous God and a Savior;there is none besides me.[22] "Turn to me and be saved,all the ends of the earth!For I am God, and there is no other.[23] By myself I h