Sunday, December 23: The Fourth Sunday of Advent
Mi 5:1-4A; Ps 80; Heb 10:5-10; Lk 1:39-45 Monday, December 24: Weekday of Advent
2 Sm 7:1-5, 8B-12, 14A, 16; Ps 89; Lk 1:67-79 Tuesday, December 25: The Nativity of the Lord (reading for Mass During the Day)
Is 52:7-10; Ps 98; Heb 1:1-6; Jn 1:1-18 Wednesday, December 26: St Stephen
Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59; Ps 31; Mt 10:17-22 Thursday, December 27: St John the Apostle
1 Jn 1:1-4; Ps 97; Jn 20:1A and 2-8 Friday, December 28: The Holy Innocents
1 Jn 1:5—2:2; Ps 124; Mt 2:13-18 Saturday, December 29: St Thomas Becket or fifth day of the Christmas Octave (Wales)
1 Jn 2:3-11; Ps 96; Lk 2:22-35
Extraordinary Form
Sunday, December 23: Fourth Sunday of Advent
1 Cor 4:1-5; Lk 3:1-6 Monday, December 24: Vigil of Christmas
Rom 1:1-6; Mt 1:18-21 Tuesday, 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 Wednesday, December 26: St Stephen
Acts 6:8-10, 7:54-60; Mt 23:34-39 Thursday, December 27: St John the Apostle
Ecclus 15:1-6; Jn 21:19-24 Friday, December 28: Holy Innocents
Apoc 14:1-5; Mt 2:13-18 Saturday, December 29: St Thomas of Canterbury
Heb 5:1-6; Jn 10:11-16
Compiled by the Latin Mass Society
Prayer of the week
O Glorious St John, you were so loved by Jesus that you merited to rest your head upon his breast, and to be left in his place as a son to Mary. Obtain for us an ardent love for Jesus and Mary. Let me be united with them now on earth and forever after in heaven. Amen.
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