The Liturgical Year: Christmas

Prior Period Current Period Subsequent Period
Liturgical Year — Advent Liturgical Year — Christmas Liturgical Year — from Epiphany to Quinquagesima Sunday
Multiple Instances of Some Days are Present in Adjoining Periods
Chapter I — The History of Christmas 1
Chapter II — The Mystery of Christmas 7
Chapter III — Practice during Christmas 17
Chapter IV — Morning and Night Prayers for Christmas 34
Chapter V — On hearing Mass, during the Season of Christmas 61
Chapter VI — On Holy Communion, during Christmas 88
Chapter VII — On the Office of Vespers for Sundays and Feasts, during Christmas 98
Chapter VIII — On the Office of Compline, during Christmas 109
Christmas Day 120
Afternoon of the Eve 120
First Vespers 128
The Hour before Midnight Service 135
Matins 146
Midnight Mass 184
Lauds 194
The Second Mass, or Mass of the Aurora 208
Early Morning, before Mass 219
The Third Mass 225
Second Vespers 233
December 26 — Saint Stephen, the First Martyr 249
Mass 254
December 27 — Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist 278
Mass 283
Vespers 290
December 28 — The Holy Innocents 310
Mass 314
Vespers 321
December 29 — Saint Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Martyr 339
Mass 351
Vespers 358
December 30 — Sunday within the Octave of Christmas, or the Sixth Day within the Octave 374
Mass 375
Vespers 381
December 31— Saint Sylvester, Pope and Confessor 390
January 1 — The Circumcision of our Lord 409
First Vespers 414
Mass 420
Second Vespers 425
January 2 — The Octave of Saint Stephen 434
January 3 — The Octave of Saint John 446
January 4 — The Octave of Holy Innocents 461
January 5 — The Octave of Saint Thomas of Canterbury 473
Same Day — The Vigil of the Epiphany, and Commemoration of St Telesphorus, Pope and Martyr 484
Mass of the Vigil 485
Appendix — Adeste Fideles 489

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