Saturday, December
24, 2016
CHRISTMAS VIGIL
9:00 pm Christmas Vigil Mass in Multilingual
Sunday, December 25,
2016
CHRISTMAS DAY
10:00 am Mass in 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.
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”
PSALMS 89:4-5,16-17,
27 & 29
4 I have made your
dynasty firm for ever, built your throne stable age after age.
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 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”
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.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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