Tuesday, December 24,
2013
9:00 pm Carolling
9:30 pm Christmas Eve Mass in Multilingual
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.
4 No more will you be known as 'Forsaken' or
your country be known as 'Desolation'; instead, you will be called 'My Delight
is in her' and your country 'The Wedded'; for Yahweh will take delight in you
and your country will have its wedding.
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.
“The
Word of the Lord”
2 for you have said: love is built to last for
ever, you have fixed your constancy firm in the heavens.
3 'I have made a covenant with my Chosen One,
sworn an oath to my servant David:
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.
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.
ACTS OF APOSTLES
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."
“The
Word of the Lord”
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.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
CHRISTMAS DAY
10:00 am Christmas Day Mass in Multilingual
First Reading
ISAIAH 52:7-10
7 How beautiful on the mountains, are the feet
of the messenger announcing peace, of the messenger of good news, who proclaims
salvation and says to Zion, 'Your God is king!'
8 The voices of your watchmen! Now they raise
their voices, shouting for joy together, for with their own eyes they have seen
Yahweh returning to Zion.
9 Break into shouts together, shouts of joy,
you ruins of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has consoled his people, he has redeemed
Jerusalem.
10 Yahweh has bared his holy arm for all the
nations to see, and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our
God.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 98:1-6
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,
3 mindful of his faithful love and his
constancy to the House of Israel. The whole wide world has seen the saving
power of our God.
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.
Second Reading
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.
4 So he is now as far above the angels as the
title which he has inherited is higher than their own name.
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.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
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.
3 Through him all things came into being, not
one thing came into being except through him.
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.
9 The Word was the real light that gives light
to everyone; he was coming into the world.
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.
15 John witnesses to him. He proclaims: 'This is
the one of whom I said: He who comes after me has passed ahead of me because he
existed before me.'
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.
“The Gospel of the
Lord”
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