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DOMINICAN CALENDAR Province of the Assumption Sat, 20 Dec, 2025 |
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December 2025
| Psalter: Week 4 |
| Dec 25 Thursday | Lunar day: 5 |
| 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, sequence Laetabundus optional | ||
| 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 | |