Readings at Mass Thursday 30 December 2021

 Readings at Mass

Thursday 30 December 2021

Christmas Octave

Liturgical Colour: White.

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First reading

1 John 2:12-17

I am writing to you, my own children,

whose sins have already been forgiven through his name;

I am writing to you, fathers,

who have come to know the one

who has existed since the beginning;

I am writing to you, young men,

who have already overcome the Evil One;

I have written to you, children,

because you already know the Father;

I have written to you, fathers,

because you have come to know the one

who has existed since the beginning;

I have written to you, young men,

because you are strong and God’s word has made its home in you,

and you have overcome the Evil One.

You must not love this passing world

or anything that is in the world.

The love of the Father cannot be

in any man who loves the world,

because nothing the world has to offer

– the sensual body,

the lustful eye,

pride in possessions –

could ever come from the Father

but only from the world;

and the world, with all it craves for,

is coming to an end;

but anyone who does the will of God

remains for ever.

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Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 96:7-10

Response: Let the heavens rejoice and earth be glad.

Give the Lord, you families of peoples,

    give the Lord glory and power;

    give the Lord the glory of his name.

Bring an offering and enter his courts,

    worship the Lord in his temple.

    O earth, tremble before him.

Proclaim to the nations: ‘God is king.’

    The world he made firm in its place;

    he will judge the peoples in fairness.

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Gospel Acclamation

Heb 1:1-2

Alleluia, alleluia!

At various times in the past

and in various different ways,

God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets;

but in our own time, the last days,

he has spoken to us through his Son.

Alleluia!

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Gospel

Luke 2:36-40

There was a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was well on in years. Her days of girlhood over, she had been married for seven years before becoming a widow. She was now eighty-four years old and never left the Temple, serving God night and day with fasting and prayer. She came by just at that moment and began to praise God; and she spoke of the child to all who looked forward to the deliverance of Jerusalem.

    When they had done everything the Law of the Lord required, they went back to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. Meanwhile the child grew to maturity, and he was filled with wisdom; and God’s favour was with him.

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Scripture readings from the Jerusalem Bible, Text of the Psalms from The Grail