Daily Scripture Readings

Readings for the Week of Advent 3, Sunday, December 14, – Saturday, December 20, 2025

Collect for Third Sunday in Advent  (used every day this week); O LORD Jesu Christ, who at thy first coming didst send thy messenger to prepare thy way before thee: Grant that the ministers and stewards of thy mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready thy way, by turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, that at thy second coming to judge the world we may be found an acceptable people in thy sight; who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

Collect for First Sunday in Advent  (used every day in Advent after other Collects until Christmas Eve): ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty, to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, now and ever. Amen.
Advent 3 Morning Prayer Evening Prayer
1st Lesson 2nd Lesson 1st  Lesson 2nd Lesson
Sunday Isaiah 28:9-22 Revelation 3:7-end Isaiah 32:1-18 Matthew 3
Monday Isaiah 42:1-17 Mark 7:1-23 Isaiah 42:18-43:13 Revelation 18
Tuesday Isaiah 43:14-44:5 Mark 7:24-8:10 Isaiah 44:6-23 Revelation 19
Wednesday Isaiah 44:24-45:13 Mark 8:11-9:1 Isaiah 45:14-25 Revelation 20
Thursday Isaiah 46 Mark 9:2-32 Isaiah 47 Revelation 21:1-14
Friday Isaiah 48 Mark 9:33-50 Isaiah 49:1-13 Revelation 21:15-22:5
Saturday Isaiah 49:14-26 Mark 10:1-31 Isaiah 50:4-10 Revelation 22:6-21

Readings for the Week of Advent 4 and the Beginning of Christmastide, Sunday, December 21, – Saturday, December 27, 2025

Collect for Fouth Sunday in Advent  (used Sunday – Christmas Eve morning); RAISE up, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy power, and come among us, and with great might succour us; that whereas, through our sins and wickedness, we are sore let and hindered in running the race that is set before us, thy bountiful grace and mercy may speedily help and deliver us; who with the Father and the Holy Spirit livest and reignest, one God, world without end. Amen.

Collect for First Sunday in Advent  (used every day in Advent after other Collects until Christmas Eve): ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty, to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, now and ever. Amen.
Collect for Christmas (used Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and every day through Christmas (until the evening of January 5)):  ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us thy only begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure Virgin: Grant that we being regenerate, and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit; through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

The following additional Collect may also be used during the twelve days of Christmas (Christmas Eve to and including the morning of January 5 .

O GOD, who makest us glad with the yearly remembrance of the birth of thy only Son Jesus Christ: Grant that as we joyfully receive him as our Redeemer, we may with sure confidence behold him when he shall come again to be our Judge; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, now and ever. Amen.

Collect for Feast of St. Stephen  (used all day December 26 with the above Christmas Collect(s)): GRANT, O Lord, that in all our sufferings here upon earth, for the testimony of thy truth, we may stedfastly look up to heaven, and by faith behold the glory that shall be revealed; and, being filled with the Holy Spirit, may learn to love and bless our persecutors, by the example of thy first Martyr Saint Stephen, who prayed for his murderers to thee, O blessed Jesus, who standest at the right hand of God to succour all those that suffer for thee, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen.

Collect for Feast of St. John the Evangelist  (used all day December 27 with the above Christmas Collect(s)):  MERCIFUL Lord, we beseech thee to cast thy bright beams of light upon thy Church, that it being enlightened by the doctrine of thy blessed Apostle and Evangelist Saint John may so walk in the light of thy truth, that it may at length attain to the light of everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

 

Collect for The Holy Innocents  (used the Evening of December 27 with the above Christmas Collect(s)): O ALMIGHTY God, who out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast ordained strength, and madest infants to glorify thee by their deaths: Mortify and kill all vices in us, and so strengthen us by thy grace, that by the innocency of our lives, and constancy of our faith, even unto death, we may glorify thy holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Advent 4 and the Beginning of Christmastide Morning Prayer Evening Prayer
  1st Lesson 2nd Lesson 1st  Lesson 2nd Lesson
Sunday Isaiah 30:8-21 Revelation 14:13-15:4 Isaiah 40:1-11 Luke 1:26-45
Monday Isaiah 51:1-16 Mark 10:32-end Isaiah 51:17-52:12 Jude 1-16
Tuesday Isaiah 52:13-53:end Mark 11:1-26 Isaiah 54 Jude 17-end
Christmas Eve Isaiah 56: 1-8 Mark 11: 27- 12:12 Zechariah 2:10-end Hebrews 2:10-18
Christmas Day Isaiah 9:2-7 Matthew 1:18-25 Isaiah 7:10-14 1 John 4:7-end
St. Stephen (Dec 26) Genesis 4:1-10 Acts 6 2 Chronicles 24:15-22 Acts 7:59 – 8:8
St. John, Evangelist

(Dec 27)

 Exodus 33:9-end John 13:21-35 Isaiah 6:1-8 1 John 5:1-12