Sunday, December 25: The Nativity of the Lord
Is 52:7-10; Ps 98; Heb 1:1-6; Jn 1:1-18 Monday, December 26: St Stephen
Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59; Ps 31; Mt 10:17-22 Tuesday, December 27: St John
1 Jn 1:1-4; Ps 97; Jn 20:1-8 Wednesday, December 28: The Holy Innocents
1 Jn 1:5–2:2; Ps 124; Mt 2:13-18 Thursday, December 29: Fifth day of Christmas Octave, St Thomas Becket
1 Jn 2:3-11; Ps 96; Lk 2:22-35 Friday, December 30: The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
Sir 3:2-6, 12-14; Ps 128; Mt 2:13-15, 19-23 Saturday, December 31: Seventh day of Christmas Octave, St Sylvester I
1 Jn 2:18-21; Ps 96; Jn 1:1-18
Extraordinary Form
Sunday, December 25: Christmas Day Midnight Mass: Tit 2:11-15; Lk 2:1-14 Dawn Mass: Tit 3:4-7; Lk 2:15-20 Day Mass: Heb 1:1-12; Jn 1:1-14 Monday, December 26: St Stephen
Acts 6:8-10, 7:54-60; Mt 23:34-39 Tuesday, December 27: St John
Eccles 15:1-6; Jn 21:19-24 Wednesday, December 28: Holy Innocents
Apoc 14:1-5; Mt 2:13-18 Thursday, December 29: St Thomas
Heb 5:1-6; Jn 10:11-16 Friday, December 30: Sixth day in the Octave of Christmas
Readings of Christmas Day Dawn Mass repeated Saturday, December 31: Seventh day in the Octave of Christmas
Readings of Christmas Day Dawn Mass repeated
Prayer of Week
God of endless ages, Father of all goodness, we keep vigil for the dawn of salvation and the birth of your Son. With gratitude we recall his humanity, the life he shared with the sons of men. May the power of his divinity help us answer his call to forgiveness and life. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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