Sunday, December 8: The Second Sunday of Advent
Is 11:1-10; Ps 72; Rm 15:4-9; Mt 3:1-12
Monday, December 9: The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Gn 3:9-15, 20; Ps 98; Eph 1:3-6, 11-12; Lk 1:26-38
Tuesday, December 10: Weekday of Advent, St John Roberts, priest, martyr
Is 40:1-11; Ps 96; Mt 18:12-14
Wednesday, December 11: Weekday of Advent, St Damasus I, pope
Is 40:25-31; Ps 103; Mt 11:28-30
Thursday, December 12: Weekday of Advent, Our Lady of Guadalupe
Zec 2:14-17 or Rev11:19; 12:1-6, 10;
Jth 13:18-19; Lk 1:26-38 or 1:39-47
Friday, December 13: St Lucy, virgin, martyr
Is 48:17-19; Ps 1; Mt 11:16-19
Saturday, December 14: St John of the Cross, priest, Doctor of the Church
Sir 48:1-4, 9-11; Ps 80; Mt 17:10-13
Extraordinary Form
Sunday, December 8: Immaculate
Conception of Our Lady
Proverbs 8:22-35; Luke 1:26-28
Monday, December 9: Feria
Romans 15:4-13; Matthew 11:2-10
Tuesday, December 10: Feria
Readings of Monday repeated
Wednesday, December 11: St Damasus I, pope and confessor
1 Peter 5:1-4,10-11; Matthew 16:13-19
Thursday, December 12: Feria
Readings of Monday repeated
Friday, December 13: St Lucy, virgin
and martyr
2 Corinthians 10:17-18,11:1-2; Matthew 13:44-52
Saturday, December 14: Feria
Readings of Monday repeated
Compiled by Gordon Dimon, Senior MC of the Latin Mass Society
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