This is the testimony of John.

The shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem and found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger.

In the beginning was the Word,/ and the Word was with God,/ and the Word was God./ He was in the beginning with God./ All things came to be through him,/ and without him nothing came to be./ What came to be through him was life,/ and this life was the light of the human race;/ the light shines in the darkness,/ and the darkness has not overcome it.

There was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher.

Each year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom.

When the magi had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you.

On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we do not know where they put him.” So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb.

Jesus said to his disciples: “Beware of men, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues, and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans.

A reading from the holy Gospel according to John1:1-18 [For the shorter form (1:1-5, 9-14), omit the text in brackets.] In the beginning was the

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke2:1-14 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be