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🤍 Christmas

Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. It begins December 25 and lasts twelve days, culminating at the Eve of Epiphany (or Twelfth Night) on January 5.

Christmastide is a season to celebrate the gift of God’s presence and to commemorate early events in Jesus’s life.

Holy Innocents’ Day (December 28), which recognizes the children executed by Herod the Great at Bethlehem according to the Gospel of Matthew.

The feast of the Holy Name of Jesus recalls when Jesus’s parents named him at Jerusalem, according to the Gospel of Luke.

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Daily Office Lectionary Readings for Christmas (Year Two)
🗓️ Day🌞 Morning
🎶 Psalm		1️⃣ First2️⃣ Second🗞️ Gospel🌛 Evening
🎶 Psalm
Christmas Day
(Thursday)

BibleGateway		2, 85Mic 4:1–5; 5:2–41 John 4:7–16John 3:31–36110:1–5(6–7), 132
St. Stephen
(Friday)

BibleGateway		28, 302 Chr 24:17–22
Wis 4:7–15		Acts 6:1–7
Acts 7:59–8:8		118
St. John
(Saturday)

BibleGateway		97, 98Prov 8:22–30
Isa 44:1–8		1 John 5:1–12John 13:20–35145
First Sunday after Christmas

BibleGateway		93, 961 Sam 1:1–2, 7b–28Col 1:9–20Luke 2:22–4036
Monday

BibleGateway		18:1–202 Sam 23:13–17b2 John 1–13John 2:1–1118:21–50
Tuesday

BibleGateway		20, 21:1–7(8–13)1 Kgs 17:17–243 John 1–15John 4:46–5423, 27
Eve of Holy Name
(Wednesday)

BibleGateway		46, 481 Kgs 3:5–14
Isa 65:15b–25		Jas 4:13–17; 5:7–11
Rev 21:1–6		John 5:1–1590
Holy Name
(Thursday)

BibleGateway		103Isa 62:1–5, 10–12Rev 19:11–16Matt 1:18–25148
Friday

BibleGateway		341 Kgs 19:1–8Eph 4:1–16John 6:1–1433
Saturday

BibleGateway		681 Kgs 19:9–18Eph 4:17–32John 6:15–2772
Second Sunday after Christmas

BibleGateway		66, 67Wis 7:3–14Col 3:12–17John 6:41–47145
Eve of Epiphany
(Monday)

BibleGateway		2, 110:1–5(6–7)Jonah 2:2–9
Isa 66:18–23		Eph 6:10–20
Rom 15:7–13		John 11:17–27, 38–4429, 98
Note: References follow abbreviations from the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL).