Daily Scripture Readings

Readings for the Week of the First Sunday in Christmas, Sunday, December 28, 2025, – Saturday, January 3, 2026

Collect for The Holy Innocents (used Sunday, December 28):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.
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.

Collects for the Octave Day of Christmas and The Circumcision, January 1, 2026: 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.

ALMIGHTY God, who madest thy blessed Son to be circumcised, and obedient to the law for man: Grant us the true circumcision of the Spirit; that, our hearts, and all our members, being mortified from all worldly and carnal lusts, we may in all things obey thy blessed will; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Collect for the New Year:  O IMMORTAL Lord God, who inhabitest eternity, and hast brought thy servants to the beginning of another year: Pardon, we humbly beseech thee, our transgressions in the past, bless to us this New Year, and graciously abide with us all the days of our life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Christmas I Morning Prayer Evening Prayer
  1st Lesson 2nd Lesson 1st  Lesson 2nd Lesson
Sunday, Holy Innocents Baruch 4:21-27 Revelation 6:9-11 Jeremiah 31:1-17 Matthew 18:1-10
Monday, Dec. 29 Ruth 1:1-18 John 1:14-18 Ruth 1:19-2:13 Matthew 11:2-6
Tuesday, Dec. 30 Ruth 2:14-23 John 3:16-21 Ruth 3 Matthew 16:13-20
Wednesday, Dec. 31 Ruth 4:1-17 John 6:41-58 Micah 4:8-5:4 Luke 22:24-30
Octave Day of Christmas

(Jan 1)

 Genesis 17:1-13 Romans 2:17-29 Deuteronomy  30 Colossians 2:8-15
Friday, Jan 2 Isaiah 63:1-6 Matthew 1:18-25 Isaiah 63:7-19 1 Thessalonians 1
Saturday, Jan 3 Isaiah 64 Matthew 2:19-end Isaiah  65:1-16 1 Thessalonians 2:1-16