Sunday, December 24,
2017
CHRISTMAS VIGIL
9:00 pm Christmas Vigil Mass in Multilingual
Monday, December 25,
2017
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, 2-3,
3-4, 5-6
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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