Friday, January 01,
2016
Solemnity of the
Blessed Virgin Mary,
Mother of God
8:00 pm Mass in Multilingual
O
God, who through the fruitful virginity of Blessed Mary bestowed on the human
race the grace of eternal salvation, grant, we pray, that we may experience the
intercession of her, through whom we were found worthy to receive the author of
life, our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son. Who lives and reigns with you in the
unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
First Reading
NUMBERS 6:22-27
22 Yahweh spoke to Moses
and said,
23 'Speak to Aaron and
his sons and say: "This is how you must bless the Israelites. You will
say:
24 May Yahweh bless you
and keep you.
25 May Yahweh let his
face shine on you and be gracious to you.
26 May Yahweh show you
his face and bring you peace."
27 This is how they must
call down my name on the Israelites, and then I shall bless them.'
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 67: 2-3, 5, 6,
8
2 Then the earth will
acknowledge your ways, and all nations your power to save.
3 Let the nations
praise you, God, let all the nations praise you.
4 Let the nations
rejoice and sing for joy, for you judge the world with justice, you judge the
peoples with fairness, you guide the nations on earth.Pause
5 Let the nations
praise you, God, let all the nations praise you.
6 The earth has yielded
its produce; God, our God has blessed us.
7 May God continue to
bless us, and be revered by the whole wide world.
Second Reading
GALATIANS 4:4-7
4 but when the
completion of the time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born a subject
of the Law,
5 to redeem the
subjects of the Law, so that we could receive adoption as sons.
6 As you are sons, God
has sent into our hearts the Spirit of his Son crying, 'Abba, Father';
7 and so you are no
longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir, by God's own act.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
LUKE 2:16-21
16 So they hurried away
and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger.
17 When they saw the
child they repeated what they had been told about him,
18 and everyone who
heard it was astonished at what the shepherds said to them.
19 As for Mary, she
treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart.
20 And the shepherds
went back glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, just as
they had been told.
21 When the eighth day
came and the child was to be circumcised, they gave him the name Jesus, the
name the angel had given him before his conception.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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