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| white | THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD
(Christmas)
Holy Day of Obligation | Solemnity |
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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: | 87th birthday of P. Emmanuel GURUMOMBE (born this day in 1971). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| NATIVITAS DOMINI NOSTRI JESU CHRISTI, SECUNDUM CARNEM. |
| The Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to the flesh. |
| 1902 | The Novitiate of St. Andrew on Hudson, Poughkeepsie, New York opens. |
| 1930 | California Province is divided into California Province and the Rocky Mountain Region. |
| 1941 | An ordinance on community litanies is promulgated by V. Rev. Fr. General Ledochowski. |
| 1961 | The Vice Province of Central Africa becomes a Province. |
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