Contemplating today's Gospel
Today's Gospel + homily (in 300 words)
Perpetual calendar: Christmas
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- For Christmas Day 4 different Gospels apply, depending upon the hour of the Mass celebration: Vigil, Midnight, Dawn or Mass of the Day. Our service sends our subscribers —alternatively- to one of these possibilities.
- The Holy Family is celebrated the First Sunday after Christmas (it may fall between December 26th and January 1st). It also has a triple cycle A, B y C.
- If the 26th, 27th and 28th of December do not fall on Sunday, they have their own festivity: respectively, St. Stephen, St. John and the day of the Saint Innocents.
- Christmas time ends with the Baptism of the Lord: it is celebrated the First Sunday after Epiphany (it is, therefore, celebrated between Jan. 7th and 13th). Between both festivities the Gospels corresponding from January 7th to 12th are read.
- The day after the Baptism of the Lord is the 1st Monday of the Ordinary Time.
December 9th
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Gospel and commentary video
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December 8th
Second Sunday of Advent (C)
Gospel and commentary video
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