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March Cafod (Lent Fast Day – optional) Lent Station Mass Bishop’s Charitable Purposes Friday
24th December – 25th December – Psalter Week 4
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Office: First Vespers of tomorrow’s Solemnity At the Vigil Mass: Gloria, Readings of the Vigil Mass of the Nativity of the Lord, Creed (all kneel briefly at “et incarnatus est…”), Proper Preface (and insert of Christmas if Eucharistic Prayer I) Before the Midnight Mass of Christmas it is appropriate that a solemn vigil should be celebrated with the Office of Readings; Compline is not said by those who are present at this vigil. At the Midnight Mass: Gloria, Readings of the Midnight Mass of the Nativity of the Lord, Creed (all kneel briefly at “et incarnatus est…”), Proper Preface (and insert of Christmas if Eucharistic Prayer I)
Holy Day of Obligation (Missa Pro Populo) All priests may celebrate or concelebrate three Masses at their appropriate points of the day. If only one Mass is celebrated the one appropriate to that part of the day is used. A priest who celebrates Mass three times may accept three Mass offerings. At the Dawn Mass: Gloria, Readings of the Dawn Mass of the Nativity of the Lord, Creed (all kneel briefly at “et incarnatus est…”), Proper Preface (and insert of Christmas if Eucharistic Prayer I) At the Day Mass: Gloria, Readings of the Day Mass of the Nativity of the Lord, Creed (all kneel briefly at “et incarnatus est…”), Proper Preface (and insert of Christmas if Eucharistic Prayer I)
26th December – 1st January 2022 – Psalter Week 1
WHITE THE HOLY FAMILY (FEAST)
At Mass: Gloria, Readings of the Feast, Creed, Preface of The Nativity of the Lord (and insert of Christmas if Eucharistic Prayer I) The feast of Saint Stephen, martyr, is omitted this year RIP: Fr Austin Rowley (1903)
WHITE SAINT JOHN, APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST (FEAST)
At Mass: Gloria, Readings of the Feast, Creed, Preface of The Nativity of the Lord (and insert of Christmas if Eucharistic Prayer I) Public Holiday (transferred from 25
th)
RED THE HOLY INNOCENTS, MARTYRS (FEAST)
At Mass: Gloria, Readings of the Feast, Preface of The Nativity of the Lord (and insert of Christmas if Eucharistic Prayer I) Bank Holiday (transferred from 26
th) RIP: Canon Bowman A Short (1960); Bishop William Eric Grasar (1982)
RED
SAINT THOMAS OF CANTERBURY (BECKET), BISHOP AND MARTYR (FEAST)
At Mass: Gloria, Readings of the Feast, Preface of The Nativity of the Lord (and insert of Christmas if Eucharistic Prayer I)
WHITE SIXTH DAY WITHIN THE OCTAVE OF CHRISTMAS
At Mass: Gloria, Readings of the Sixth Day, Preface of The Nativity of the Lord (and insert of Christmas if Eucharistic Prayer I) RIP: Fr Stanley Borrows (1963)
