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December 2055

25 Saturday
  whiteTHE NATIVITY OF THE LORD
(Christmas)
Holy Day of Obligation
Solemnity
Holy Day of Obligation
Priests may celebrate or concelebrate three Masses as long as they are celebrated at the proper times (2002 GIRM 204c).
Mass of the Vigil, Midnight, Dawn or Day Mass; Gloria, Creed.
For pastoral reasons, the texts of the Vigil Mass may be used at any of the Christmas Masses and any set of readings may be chosen.
Readings:
  Vigil Mass: [13] Is 62:1-5; Ps 89:4-5,16-17,27,29; Acts 13:16-17, 22-25; Mt1:1-25 or Mt 1: 18-25
  Midnight Mass: [14] Is 9:1-6; Ps 96:1-3, 11-13; Tit 2:11-14; Lk 2:1-14
  Dawn Mass: [15] Is 62:11-12; Ps 97:1, 6, 11-12; Tit 3:4-7; Lk 2:15-20
  Mass During the Day: [16] Is 52:7-10; Ps 98: 1-6; Heb 1:1-6; Jn 1:1-18 or 1:1-5, 9-14
All genuflect in the creed at "...and became man." (2011 transl.)
Christmas Preface I - III
Special Communicantes in Roman Canon (throughout octave.)
Hours of Christmas; Te Deum.
Before Mass at midnight on Christmas it is appropriate that the Office of Readings be celebrated as a vigil. (GILH, n. 215) At the conclusion of this celebration, the Martyrology (Proclamation of the Birth of Christ) may be sung. See the text provided in the Roman Missal.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture the Nativity of Jesus (cf. Mt 1:18–2:1, Lk 2:1–21) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Birthday:84th birthday of P. Emmanuel GURUMOMBE (born this day in 1971).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

NATIVITAS DOMINI NOSTRI JESU CHRISTI, SECUNDUM CARNEM.
The Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to the flesh.
1902The Novitiate of St. Andrew on Hudson, Poughkeepsie, New York opens.
1930California Province is divided into California Province and the Rocky Mountain Region.
1941An ordinance on community litanies is promulgated by V. Rev. Fr. General Ledochowski.
1961The Vice Province of Central Africa becomes a Province.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2055

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  4
Epact  ii
Solar Cycle 20
Letter of the Martyrology b
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6768
Years since the confirmation of the Society 515
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  499
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 34
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 18 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    18 April