All the Old Testament readings for the season of Advent are messages of hope and promise. They come from prophets whose mission was to remind God's people that they were indeed "called by a promise of peace and justice."

This Sunday is the last Sunday of the church's liturgical year. It is a feast that celebrates the reign of the King whose kingdom we have been proclaiming all these ordinary Sundays: "Christ, yesterday and today, the beginning and the end ..."