January 3
HOLY NAME OF JESUS
ENTRANCE ANTIPHON
In nómine Iesu omne genu flectátur, cæléstium, terréstrium et infernórum, et omnis lingua confiteátur quia Dóminus Iesus Christus in glória est Dei Patris.
At the name of Jesus, every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
[–» Greeting]
COLLECT
O God, who founded the salvation of the human race on the Incarnation of your Word, give your peoples the mercy they implore, so that all may know there is no other name to be invoked but the Name of your Only Begotten Son. Who lives and reigns with you.
Reading 1
PHIL 2:1-11
If there is any encouragement in Christ,
any solace in love,
any participation in the Spirit,
any compassion and mercy,
complete my joy by being of the same mind,
with the same love, united in heart,
thinking one thing.
Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory;
rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves,
each looking out not for his own interests, but also everyone for those of others.
Have among yourselves the same attitude
that is also yours in Christ Jesus,
Who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God something to be grasped.
Rather, he emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
coming in human likeness;
and found human in appearance,
he humbled himself,
becoming obedient to death,
even death on a cross.
Because of this, God greatly exalted him
and bestowed on him the name
that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend,
of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Responsorial Psalm
PS 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9
When I behold your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and stars which you set in place—
What is man that you should be mindful of him,
or the son of man that you should care for him?
R. O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!
You have made him little less than the angels,
and crowned him with glory and honor.
You have given him rule over the works of your hands,
putting all things under his feet.
R. O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!
All sheep and oxen,
yes, and the beasts of the field,
The birds of the air, the fishes of the sea,
and whatever swims the paths of the seas.
R. O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!
Alleluia MT 1:21
You are to name him Jesus,
because he will save his people from their sins.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
LK 2:21-24
When eight days were completed for his circumcision,
the child was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel
before he was conceived in the womb.
When the days were completed for their purification
according to the law of Moses,
they took him up to Jerusalem
to present him to the Lord,
just as it is written in the law of the Lord,
Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,
and to offer the sacrifice of
a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons,
in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord.
PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS
Bringing you these offerings from what your bounty bestows on us, we pray, O Lord, that just as you have given to Christ, obedient even until death, the Name that saves, so you may grant us protection by its power. Through Christ our Lord.
[–» Eucharistic Prayer]
[–» Preface of the Presentation of the Lord]
COMMUNION ANTIPHON
Dómine, Dóminus noster, quam admirábile est nomen tuum in univérsa terra!
O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name through all the earth!
[–» Communion]
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
May the sacrificial gifts offered to your majesty, O Lord, to honor the Name of Christ, and which we have now received, fill us, we pray, with your abundant grace, so that we may come to rejoice that our names, too, are written in heaven. Through Christ our Lord.
[–» Concluding Rite]
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