Entrance Antiphon (Vigil Mass): Arise, Jerusalem, and look to the East and see your children gathered from the rising to the setting of the sun. (Cf. Bar 5: 5)

Entrance Antiphon (Mass during the Day): Behold, the Lord, the Mighty One, has come; and kingship is in his grasp, and power and dominion. (Cf. Mal 3: 1; 1 Chr 29: 12)

Collect (Vigil): May the splendor of your majesty, O Lord, we pray,
shed its light upon our hearts,
that we may pass through the shadows of this world
and reach the brightness of our eternal home.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.

Collect (Day): O God, who on this day
revealed your Only Begotten Son to the nations
by the guidance of a star,
grant in your mercy
that we, who know you already by faith,
may be brought to behold the beauty of your sublime glory.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.

First Reading: Is 63:16b-17, 19b; 64:2-7

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 80:2–3, 15–16, 18–19

Lord, every nation on Earth will adore you. 

Second Reading: 1 Cor 1:3-9

Gospel: Mk 13:33-37

Prayer over the offerings (Vigil): Accept we pray, O Lord, our offerings,
in honor of the appearing of your Only Begotten Son
and the first fruits of the nations,
that to you praise may be rendered
and eternal salvation be ours.
Through Christ our Lord.

Prayer over the offerings (Day): Look with favor, Lord, we pray,
on these gifts of your Church,
in which are offered now not gold or frankincense or myrrh,
but he who by them is proclaimed,
sacrificed and received, Jesus Christ.
Who lives and reigns for ever and ever.

Communion Antiphon (Vigil): The brightness of God illumined the holy city Jerusalem, and the nations will walk by its light. (Cf. Rev 21: 23)

Communion Antiphon (Day): We have seen his star in the East, and have come with gifts to adore the Lord. (Cf. Mt 2: 2)

Prayer after Communion (Vigil): Renewed by sacred nourishment,
we implore your mercy, O Lord,
that the star of your justice
may shine always bright in our minds
and that our true treasure may ever consist in our confession of you.
Through Christ our Lord.

Prayer after Communion (Day): Go before us with heavenly light, O Lord,
always and everywhere,
that we may perceive with clear sight
and revere with true affection
the mystery in which you have willed us to participate.
Through Christ our Lord.

Suggested Music:


Processional Hymn: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise

Entrance Antiphon (Vigil): from the Ignatius Pew Missal

Entrance Antiphon (Day): from the Ignatius Pew Missal

Responsorial Psalm: from the Ignatius Pew Missal

Alleluia: from the Ignatius Pew Missal

Offertory: As with Gladness, Men of Old

Communion Antiphon (Vigil): from the Ignatius Pew Missal

Communion Antiphon (Day): from the Ignatius Pew Missal

A Eucharistic Hymn is appropriate after communion.

Recessional: We Three Kings

Some other hymn possibilities:

Bethlehem, Of Noblest Cities
Hail to the Lord’s Anointed
What Star is This