Monday, December 24, 2012
VIGIL MASS OF CHRISTMAS - YEAR C
09:30 pm Christmas Musicals
10:00 pm Mid-Night Mass (Multilingual)
First Reading
ISAIAH 62:1-5
1 About Zion I will not
be silent, about Jerusalem I shall not rest until saving justice dawns for her
like a bright light and her salvation like a blazing torch.
2 The nations will then
see your saving justice, and all kings your glory, and you will be called a new
name which Yahweh's mouth will reveal.3 You will be a crown of splendour in Yahweh's hand, a princely diadem in the hand of your God.
5 Like a young man marrying a virgin, your rebuilder will wed you, and as the bridegroom rejoices in his bride, so will your God rejoice in you.
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PSALMS 89:4-5, 16-17,
27 & 29
4 I have made your
dynasty firm for ever, built your throne stable age after age.'Pause
5 The heavens praise
your wonders, Yahweh, your constancy in the gathering of your faithful.
16 In your name they
rejoice all day long, by your saving justice they are raised up.
17 You are the flower
of their strength, by your favour our strength is triumphant;
27 So I shall make him
my first-born, the highest of earthly kings.
29 I have established
his dynasty for ever, his throne to be as lasting as the heavens.
Second Reading
ACTS 13:16-17, 22-25
16 Paul stood up, raised
his hand for silence and began to speak: 'Men of Israel, and fearers of God,
listen!
17 The God of our nation
Israel chose our ancestors and made our people great when they were living in
Egypt, a land not their own; then by divine power he led them out.
22 he deposed him and
raised up David to be king, whom he attested in these words, "I have found
David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will perform my entire
will."
23 To keep his promise,
God has raised up for Israel one of David's descendants, Jesus, as Saviour,
24 whose coming was
heralded by John when he proclaimed a baptism of repentance for the whole
people of Israel.
25 Before John ended
his course he said, "I am not the one you imagine me to be; there is
someone coming after me whose sandal I am not fit to undo."
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Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 1:1-25
1 Roll of the
genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham:
2 Abraham fathered
Isaac, Isaac fathered Jacob, Jacob fathered Judah and his brothers,
3 Judah fathered Perez
and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar, Perez fathered Hezron, Hezron fathered Ram,
4 Ram fathered
Amminadab, Amminadab fathered Nahshon, Nahshon fathered Salmon,
5 Salmon fathered Boaz,
whose mother was Rahab, Boaz fathered Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed
fathered Jesse;
6 and Jesse fathered
King David. David fathered Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah's wife,
7 Solomon fathered
Rehoboam, Rehoboam fathered Abijah, Abijah fathered Asa,
8 Asa fathered
Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat fathered Joram, Joram fathered Uzziah,
9 Uzziah fathered
Jotham, Jotham fathered Ahaz, Ahaz fathered Hezekiah,
10 Hezekiah fathered
Manasseh, Manasseh fathered Amon, Amon fathered Josiah;
11 and Josiah fathered
Jechoniah and his brothers. Then the deportation to Babylon took place.
12 After the
deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah fathered Shealtiel, Shealtiel fathered
Zerubbabel,
13 Zerubbabel fathered
Abiud, Abiud fathered Eliakim, Eliakim fathered Azor,
14 Azor fathered Zadok,
Zadok fathered Achim, Achim fathered Eliud,
15 Eliud fathered
Eleazar, Eleazar fathered Matthan, Matthan fathered Jacob;
16 and Jacob fathered
Joseph the husband of Mary; of her was born Jesus who is called Christ.
17 The sum of
generations is therefore: fourteen from Abraham to David; fourteen from David
to the Babylonian deportation; and fourteen from the Babylonian deportation to
Christ.
18 This is how Jesus
Christ came to be born. His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph; but before
they came to live together she was found to be with child through the Holy
Spirit.
19 Her husband Joseph,
being an upright man and wanting to spare her disgrace, decided to divorce her
informally.
20 He had made up his
mind to do this when suddenly the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream
and said, 'Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your
wife, because she has conceived what is in her by the Holy Spirit.
21 She will give birth
to a son and you must name him Jesus, because he is the one who is to save his
people from their sins.'
22 Now all this took
place to fulfil what the Lord had spoken through the prophet:
23 Look! the virgin is
with child and will give birth to a son whom they will call Immanuel, a name
which means 'God-is-with-us'.
24 When Joseph woke up
he did what the angel of the Lord had told him to do: he took his wife to his
home;
25 he had not had
intercourse with her when she gave birth to a son; and he named him Jesus.
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Tuesday, December 25,
2012
CHRISTMAS DAY – YEAR C
7 your country a
desolation, your towns burnt down, your soil, foreigners lay it waste before
your eyes, a desolation like devastation by foreigners.
9 Had Yahweh Sabaoth not left us a few survivors, we should be like Sodom, we should be the same as Gomorrah.
10 Hear what Yahweh says, you rulers of Sodom; listen to what our God teaches, you people of Gomorrah.
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1 [Psalm] Sing a new
song to Yahweh, for he has performed wonders, his saving power is in his right
hand and his holy arm.
2 Yahweh has made known
his saving power, revealed his saving justice for the nations to see,
4 Acclaim Yahweh, all the earth, burst into shouts of joy!
5 Play to Yahweh on the harp, to the sound of instruments;
6 to the sound of trumpet and horn, acclaim the presence of the King.
HEBREWS 1:1-6
1 At many moments in
the past and by many means, God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets;
but
2 in our time, the
final days, he has spoken to us in the person of his Son, whom he appointed
heir of all things and through whom he made the ages.3 He is the reflection of God's glory and bears the impress of God's own being, sustaining all things by his powerful command; and now that he has purged sins away, he has taken his seat at the right hand of the divine Majesty on high.
5 To which of the angels, then, has God ever said: You are my Son, today I have fathered you, or: I shall be a father to him and he a son to me?
6 Again, when he brings the First-born into the world, he says: Let all the angels of God pay him homage.
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JOHN 1:1-18
1 In the beginning was
the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God.
2 He was with God in
the beginning.
4 What has come into being in him was life, life that was the light of men;
5 and light shines in darkness, and darkness could not overpower it.
6 A man came, sent by God. His name was John.
7 He came as a witness, to bear witness to the light, so that everyone might believe through him.
8 He was not the light, he was to bear witness to the light.
10 He was in the world that had come into being through him, and the world did not recognise him.
11 He came to his own and his own people did not accept him.
12 But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believed in his name
13 who were born not from human stock or human desire or human will but from God himself.
14 The Word became flesh, he lived among us, and we saw his glory, the glory that he has from the Father as only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
16 Indeed, from his fullness we have, all of us, received -- one gift replacing another,
17 for the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth have come through Jesus Christ.
18 No one has ever seen God; it is the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known.
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