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

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke1:67-79 Zechariah his father, filled with the Holy Spirit, prophesied, saying: “Blessed be the Lord, the God

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew1:1-25 [For the shorter form (1:18-25), omit the text in brackets.] [The book of the genealogy of

When the time arrived for Elizabeth to have her child she gave birth to a son.

Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.

Mary set out in those days and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.

In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary.

In the days of Herod, King of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah of the priestly division of Abijah; his wife was from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about.