Which readings did you hear?

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I had to attend every one of my parish’s Christmas Masses this year to serve as a reader, server, or sacristan. At the Vigil Mass, the priest read the readings for the Vigil. At Midnight, the readings for “Mass during the Night” were read, and at the morning Masses today, the readings for “Mass during the Day” were used, but the priest used the Gospel reading from “Mass during the Night” at both Masses. Which readings were proclaimed at the Mass(es) you attended? It’s interesting to me because the priests can choose whichever readings they want, so what did your priest choose?

I understand that people come to Mass and expect to hear the Christmas story, but I would have loved to hear John’s Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word…”
 
I attended two our of three of my parish’s Christmas Masses.

10PM Christmas Eve Midnight Mass (Ordinariate) using Midnight Mass readings.

9:30AM Christmas Day using Mass During the Day readings, including John 1.
 
Vigil, Night (Midnight) and day mass readings. I draw the line on attending the “dawn” mass (8am - about two hours after dawn admittedly) on top of the other three.

Personally, my favourite readings are the first reading from Midnight: Isaiah 9:1-7 (“the people that walked in darkness”) and the gospel from Mass during the day: John’s prologue (“in the beginning…”)
 
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Vigil, Night (Midnight) and day mass readings. I draw the line on attending the “dawn” mass (8am - about two hours after dawn admittedly) on top of the other three.

Personally, my favourite readings are the first reading from Midnight: Isaiah 9:1-7 (“the people that walked in darkness”) and the gospel from Mass during the day: John’s prologue (“in the beginning…”)
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I think we could’ve gotten away with reading the “Mass at Dawn” readings at the 8 a.m. Mass this morning. Dawn is technically 7:15 a.m. where I live.
 
The propers today were from the “third Mass: during the daytime”. The Gospel was from the first chapter of St. John’s. We have this Gospel every Sunday as the Last Gospel, so it was very interesting to hear it chanted aloud.
 
I attended midnight mass at a parish nearby (I’ve been out of town for the holiday) and we read Isaiah 9:1-6, Timothy 2:11-14, and Luke 2:1-14.
 
I attended the Mass during the Night, with a close family friend, a priest, presiding, at my aunt’s house at 9pm before the usual Xmas party we have every Christmas Eve. Then I attended the Solemn Mass during the day at 8am in my Parish
 
The priest was worried about me, I could see it in his eyes, so he chose the shortest reading as possible and made it plain.
 
I attended our 10:00 pm “midnight” Mass. The readings were the Mass at night readings.
 
Vigil: Mass during the Night
Midnight: Mass during the Night
Morning: Mass during the Day

Loved the Gospel at the morning Mass. I hear this regularly in Latin as the Last Gospel, so hearing it in French struck me as odd (in a good way). Instinctively I bowed at “And the Word became flesh,” much to the puzzlement of those around me :o
 
For Christmas there are three sets of readings known by the first line of the Introit and I believe they follow the same pattern in the OF and the EF, although the Introit is very seldom said in the OF.
  1. Dominus dixit
  2. Lux fulgebit
  3. Puer natus est (with the Gospel of the beginning of St. John) (The Last Gospel is not said in the EF.)
 
10:30 a.m. Mass During the Day Priest used EP I for the first time AFAIK at this parish.
 
CatholicZ09 said:
I understand that people come to Mass and expect to hear the Christmas story, but I would have loved to hear John’s Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word…”
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My favorite gospel!

I did not get to hear it yesterday, however. I attended the Byzantine Divine Liturgy, where the prescribed reading is the coming of the Magi. (We read the birth of Christ during Matins, but my parish did not have Matins yesterday.)
 
At the Xmas Eve Mass, the gospel was the traditional journey to Bethlehem - birth and shepherds visit the baby Jesus. I can’t remember the others.

I went to a TLM/EF Mass for Xmas Day at 1pm, and the gospel was the “Last Gospel” one - “The Word Became Flesh…”
 
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