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Thursday, December 25, 2008
The Nativity of the Lord – Christmas (Solemnity)

*Midnight*
First Reading: Psalm: Second Reading: Gospel:	Isaiah 9:1-6 Psalm 96:1-3, 11-13 Titus 2:11-14 Luke 2:1-14
Dawn
First Reading: Psalm: Second Reading: Gospel:	Isaiah 62:11-12 Psalm 97:1, 6, 11-12 Titus 3:4-7 Luke 2:15-20
During the Day
First Reading: Psalm: Second Reading: Gospel:	Isaiah 52:7-10 Psalm 98:1-6 Hebrews 1:1-6 John 1:1-18 or John 1:1-5, 9-14 Let us love the Child of Bethlehem. Come souls and love a God who has become a Child, poor and so lovable, in need of our tender love, who has come down from heaven to give Himself entirely to you. If we but ask for pardon and salvation, He has come to pardon us and to save us. -- St. Francis of Assisi

The Angelus

The Angel of the Lord declared to Mary:
And she conceived of the Holy Spirit.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of
our death. Amen.

Behold the handmaid of the Lord: Be it done unto me according to Thy word.

Hail Mary . . .

And the Word was made Flesh: And dwelt among us.

Hail Mary . . .

Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray:

Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts; that we, to whom the incarnation of Christ, Thy Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection, through the same Christ Our Lord.

Amen.