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Gospel for Christmas Midnight Mass
December 25th
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The Lord be with you.
± And with your spi-rit.
A read-ing from the Ho-ly Gos-pel ac-cord-ing to Luke.
± Glo-ry to you, O Lord.
In those days
a decree went out from Cae- sar Au- gus- tus
that the whole world should be en- rolled. This was the first en- roll- ment,
when Quirinus was governor of Sy- ri- a.
So all went to be en- rolled,
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each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Ga- li- lee from the town
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of Na- za- reth to Ju- de- a,
to the cit-y of Da- vid that is called Beth- le- hem,
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because he was of the house and fa-mi-ly of Da- vid, to be en- rolled with Ma-ry,
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his be- trothed, who was with child. While they were there, the time came for her
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to have her child, and she gave birth to her firstborn son.
She wrapped him in
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swadd-ling clothes and laid him in a man- ger, because there was no room for them
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in the inn.
Now there were shepherds in that region living in the fields and keeping
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the night watch over their flock. The angel of the Lord ap-peared to them and the
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glory of the Lord shone a- round them, and they were struck with great fear.
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The angel said to them, “do not be a- fraid; for be- hold, I proclaim to you good news
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of great joy that will be for all the peo- ple. For to- day in the cit- y of Da- vid
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a sav-ior has been born for you who is Christ and Lord. And this will be a sign
for you: you will find an in-fant wrapped in swad-dling clothes and lying in a
man- ger.” And suddenly there was a multitude of the heav-en-ly host
with the an- gel, prais- ing God and say- ing: “Glo- ry to God in the high- est
and on earth peace to those on whom his fa- vor rests.”
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The Gospel of the Lord.
± Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Music: Columba Kelly, © Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 2007 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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