Ordinary Form Divine Office Week IV Sunday, December 24: Fourth Sunday of Advent
2 Sm 7:1-5, 8B-12, 14A, 16; Ps 89; Rom 16:25-27; Lk 1:26-38 Monday, December 25: The Nativity of the Lord
Is 52:7-10; Heb 1:1-6; Ps 98; Jn 1:1-18 Tuesday, December 26: St Stephen
Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59; Ps 31; Mt 10:17-22 Wednesday, December 27: St John
1 Jn 1:1-4; Ps 97; Jn 20:1A and 2-8 Thursday, December 28: The Holy Innocents
1 Jn 1:5—2:2; Ps 124; Mt 2:13-18 Friday, December 29: 5th day of Christmas Octave, St Thomas à Becket, Bishop, Martyr
1 Jn 2:3-11; Ps 96; Lk 2:22-35 Saturday, December 30: 6th day of Christmas Octave
1 Jn 2:12-17; Ps 96; Lk 2:36-40
Extraordinary Form Sunday, December 24: Christmas Eve
Rom 1:1-6; Mt 1:18-21 Monday, December 25: Christmas Day
Midnight Mass Titus 2:11-15; Lk 2:1-14
Dawn Mass Titus 3:4-7; Lk 2:15-20
Day Mass Heb 1:1-12; Jn 1:1-14 Tuesday, December 26: St Stephen Protomartyr
Acts 6:8-10, 7:54-60; Mt 23:34-39 Wednesday, December 27: St John
Ecclus 15:1-6; Jn 21:19-24 Thursday, December 28: Sunday in the Octave of Christmas; Gal 4:1-7; Lk 2:33-40
Friday, December 29: St Thomas
Heb 5:1-6; Jn 10:11-16 Saturday, December 30: Sixth day in the Octave of Christmas; Titus 3:4-7; Lk 2:15-20
Compiled by the Latin Mass Society
Prayer of Week
God of love, Father of all, the darkness that covered the earth has given way to the bright dawn of your Word made flesh. Make us a people of this light. Make us faithful to your Word, that we may bring your life to the waiting world. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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