Brothers and sisters: When the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to ransom those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

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

Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that the antichrist was coming, so now many antichrists have appeared.

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.

I am writing to you, children, because your sins have been forgiven for his name’s sake.

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

Beloved: The way we may be sure that we know Jesus is to keep his commandments.

When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, the parents of Jesus 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.

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.

God sets a father in honor over his children;/ a mother’s authority he confirms over her sons./ Whoever honors his father atones for sins,/ and preserves himself from them./ When he prays, he is heard;/ he stores up riches who reveres his mother./ Whoever honors his father is gladdened by children,/ and, when he prays, is heard./ Who­ever reveres his father will live a long life;/ he who obeys his father brings comfort to his mother.