Month: December 2024

Readings for December 29, 2024:  The First Sunday in Christmas

Presentation of Christ in the Temple (1516) by Fra Bartolomeo (1472-1517)

Catholic

• Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14
• 1 Samuel 1:20-22, 24-28 (Alt.)
• Psalm 128:1-5

Protestant

• Exodus 13:1-3a, 11-15
• Samuel 2:18-20, 26
• Psalm 111
• Psalm 148

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• Colossians 3:12-21
• Luke 2:22-52

Readings for December 24 & 25, 2024: Christmas!

The Nativity (1473-75) by Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510)

Readings for December 24/ 25, 2024

Christmas!

Christmas  I

• Isaiah 7:10-14
• Isaiah 9:1-7
• Psalm 96
• Psalm 110:1-4
• Titus 2:11-14
• 1 John 4:7-16
• Matthew 1:18-25

Christmas II

• Isaiah 62:6-12
• Psalm 97
• Titus 3:4-7
• Luke 2:1-20

Christmas III

• Isaiah 52:7-10
• Psalm 2
• Psalm 98
• Hebrews 1:1-12
• John 1:1-18

Readings for December 22, 2024 : The Fourth Sunday in Advent

The Visitation (1503) by Mariotto Albertinelli (1474–1515)

• Micah 5:2-5a
• Psalm 80:1-7, 15-16 and 18-19
• Hebrews 10:5-10
• Luke 1:39-56 

Readings for December 15, 2024 : The Third Sunday in Advent

The Shepherds and the Angel (1879) by Carl Bloch (1834-1890)

• Zephaniah 3:14-20
• Psalm 85 
• Isaiah 12:2-6 (Canticle)
• Philippians 4:4-7
• Luke 3:7-18
• Luke 7:18-35

Readings for December 8, 2024 : The Second Sunday in Advent

Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness (c. 1600) by Annibale Carracci (1560-1609)

• Malachi 3:1-7 
• Baruch 5:1-9
• Psalm 66:1-12 
• Psalm 126:1-6 (Catholic)
• Luke 1:68-79
• Philippians 1:2-11
• Luke 3:1-20

Readings for December 1, 2024 : The First Sunday in Advent

The Last Judgment (1536-1541) by Michelangelo (1475-1564)

• Jeremiah 33:14-16
• Psalm 25:1-10, 14
• 1 Thessalonians 3:9- 4:2
• Luke 21:25-36