Readings: Is 52:7‑10 / Heb 1:1‑6 / Jn 1:1‑18 Prop
Missionary Cenacle Intentions: We dedicate today to rejoicing in the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the gift of God Himself. Today we pray:
In thanksgiving for the mystery of the Incarnation, we pray.
That Christmas celebrated throughout the world may inspire movements of peace, we pray.
For those who do not know Christ, that they may learn of God's love for all people, we pray.
For the members of the Missionary Cenacle Apostolate of Los Servidores de Cristo, Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, we pray.
For the members of the Missionary Cenacle, especially Sr. Theresa Bretthauer, MSBT we pray.
For the deceased members of the Missionary Cenacle, especially Sr. Paraclete Bohn, MSBT, 1944; Sr. Mary Grace Ahearn, MSBT, 1984; Salvador Vargas, MCA, 2020, we pray.
Reading: Christmas Day, the birthday of our Blessed Saviour! Christmas! Never was there such a word! The mystery of the Incarnation gave us this word. Poets have dreamed, writers have written, artists have had their raptures, great have been the flights and marvelous the triumphs of the intellectual strivings of the race, but no fantasy of poetry, no classic of writer, no rapture of artist, has ever been comparable to the thoughts that the word, Christmas, inspires. (MCM, p. 27)