Sunday, December 21, 2025

IV Sunday of Advent

I class
Violet

No commemoration of St. Thomas, Apostle

General info:

Funerals are not permitted

Mass:

Mass of the IV Sunday of Advent; Gloria omitted; Credo; preface of the Holy Trinity

Breviary:

Matins: Invitatorium and Hymn in Tempore Adventus; Advent antiphons with Sunday psalms; lessons from the occurring scripture and from the homilia in Evangelium diei; no Te Deum

Lauds: Proper antiphons with Sunday psalms (1st schema); hymn and verse in Tempore Adventus, capitulum, and oration proper. Nota bene: The Benedictus antiphon is proper to December 21 (printed in the proper section after the III Sunday of Advent): Nolite timere * quinta enim die veniet ad vos Dominus noster

Hours: Proper antiphons for the respective hours taken from Lauds, with Sunday psalms; responsory in Tempore Adventus, capitulum and oration proper

II Vespers: Proper antiphons with Sunday psalms; hymn and verse in Tempore Adventus, capitulum, Magnificat antiphon, and oration proper (O Antiphons for Advent)

Compline: Of Sunday