Sermon: Second Sunday of Advent

Sermon: Second Sunday of Advent

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Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Richard Witt, executive director of the Diocese of New York’s Rural and Migrant Ministry, on the Second Sunday of Advent, December 7, 2025.

      Sermon - Advent II 2025 - The Rev. Richard Witt

Lessons

You can read the scriptures for this service here: Isaiah 11:1-10; Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19; Romans 15:4-13; Matthew 3:1-12.

The image above is of a relief sculpture, ca. 1508-1519, in the Cathédrale d’Amiens in France portraying the preaching of John the Baptist.


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