The Ordo for
Saturday 25 December 2032
December 2032
| Psalter: Week 4 |
| Dec 25 Saturday | Lunar day: 22 |
| white | Christmas Day, The Nativity of the Lord | Solemnity with octave |
| Holy Day of Obligation For pastoral reasons, the texts of the Midnight Mass may be used at the Vigil. Priests may celebrate or concelebrate three Masses. | ||
| Roman Stational churches: Midnight: St Mary Major (at the manger); Dawn: St Anastasia; Day: St Mary Major | ||
| Mass of the Vigil, Midnight, Dawn or Day Mass; gloria, creed. | ||
| Readings: | ||
| Vigil Mass: Is 62:1-5; Ps 89:4-5,16-17,27,29; Ac 13:16-17, 22-25; Mt 1:1-25 or Mt 1:18-25. | ||
| Midnight Mass: Is 9: 1-7; Ps 96: 1-3, 11-13 Tit 2: 11-14; Lk 2: 1-14. | ||
| Dawn Mass: Is 62: 11-12; Ps 97: 1, 6, 11-12 Tit 3:4-7; Lk 2: 15-20. | ||
| Mass During the Day: Is 52: 7-10; Ps 98: 1-6; Hb 1: 1-6 Jn 1: 1-18. | ||
| All genuflect in the creed at "...and became man." Christmas Preface I - III Special Communicantes in Roman Canon (throughout octave.) | ||
| OP | At Mass during the Day the sequence Laetabundus may be used. Hours of Christmas; Te Deum. | |
| OP | Before Mass at midnight on Christmas it is appropriate that the Office of Readings be celebrated as a vigil. (GILH,n.215) At the conclusion of this celebration, as is the custom in the liturgical tradition of our Order, the Genealogy according to Matthew (1:1-16) may be sung. If necessary, the chant, that is the solemn proclamation of the Genealogy, may be sung in the manner proper to the gospel by a cantor who is not a deacon. | |
| OP | Plenary indulgence under the usual conditions for brethren who renew, at least privately, their resolve to fulfil faithfully the duties of their vocation. See the Introduction | |
Variables for the Current Year
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Sunday Readings
Since 1969, in order to open a richer selection of the Holy Scriptures to the faithful, the Sunday readings have been arranged in a three-year cycle. St Matthew’s Gospel is read in Year A, St Mark’s in Year B, and St Luke’s in Year C. St John’s Gospel is read in all years, in Lent and Eastertide principally.
- Cycle A
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Weekday Readings
Since 1969, in order to open a richer selection of the Holy Scriptures to the faithful, the weekday readings have been arranged in a two-year cycle.
- Cycle II
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Dominical Letter
The Dominical Letter enables one to determine easily which days of the year are Sundays.
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Golden Number
The Golden Number indicates the current year in the metonic or nineteen-year cycle of the moon. It is used in determining the date of Easter.
- 19
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Epact
The epact indicates the ‘age’ of the moon at the start of the solar year. For example, an epact of xi (that is, eleven) means that 1 January will be the twelfth day of the lunar month. If the epact is an asterisk (*), 1 January is an ecclesiastical new moon.
- 17
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Solar Cycle
The solar cycle lasts twenty-eight years, because in the Julian calendar, in any year the days fall on the same day of the week as they did 28 years ago.
- 25
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Letter of the Martyrology
The letter of the Martyrology is used in conjunction with a table at the head of each day’s reading in that book, indicating the correct day of the lunar month to be announced.
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Roman Year of Indiction
The Roman emperor Diocletian (284–305) established the practice of taking a census for taxation purposes every fifteen years, a period that became known as the cycle of indiction. In the early middle ages these cycles were taken to have begun with the accession of Constantine in 312, and were widely used to date correspondence, charters and other documents. (To find the year of indiction, add 3 to the year AD, then divide by 15. A zero remainder indicates year 15.)
- 10
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Julian Period
Invented by Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540–1609), the Julian period combines the solar, metonic and indiction cycles in a period of 7,980 years, beginning on 1 January 4713 BC.
- Year 6745
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Years since the confirmation of the Order
The Order was confirmed by Pope Honorius III on 22 December 1216.
- 816
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Years since the passing of our Holy Father Dominic
Holy Father Dominic died in the Lord in Bologna on 6 August 1221. His feast day is kept on 3 August in Australia and New Zealand, and on 8 August in the General Roman Calendar.
- 811