ARCHIVES of the Propers of Each Day of December 2005

For the Ordinary of the Holy Mass, see HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

DECEMBER 2005

• December 1 Missa "Ad Te levavi" - Feria Day. VIOLET

• December 2 Missa "Ad Te levavi" - Feria Day. VIOLET with a commemoration of Saint Bibiana, Virgin and Martyr. VIOLET.

  or Missa "Cogitationes Cordis" for FIRST FRIDAY with the celebration of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. WHITE

• December 3 Missa "Loquebar" - Double Major Feast of Saint Francis Xavier, Confessor and Missionary - Patron of Missionaries. FIRST SATURDAY. WHITE

• December 4 Missa "Populus Sion" - SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT with a commemoration of Saint Peter Chrysologus, Bishop and Doctor of the Church as well as Saint Barbara, Virgin and Martyr. VIOLET

• December 5 Missa "Populus Sion" - Feria Day. VIOLET

• December 6 Missa "Statuit ei Dominus" - Double Feast of Saint Nicholas, Bishop and Confessor. WHITE

• December 7 Missa "In medio Ecclesiae" - Double Feast of Saint Anselm, Bishop and Doctor of the Church. It is also the Vigil of the Immaculate Conception and a day of fast and absolute abstinence. WHITE

• December 8 Missa "Gaudens gaudebo" - Double of the First Class Solemnity of THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY. Holy Day of Obligation. WHITE or GOLD

• December 9 Missa "Populus Sion" - Feria Day. VIOLET

• December 10 Missa "Populus Sion" - Feria Day with a commemoration of Pope Saint Melchiades, Martyr. VIOLET

• December 11 Missa "Gaudete in Domino" - THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT with a commemoration of Pope Saint Damasus I, Martyr. ROSE

• December 12 Missa "Salve, sancta parens" - Double Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. WHITE

• December 13 Missa "Dilexisti justitiam" - Double Feast of Saint Lucy, Virgin and Martyr. RED

• December 14 Missa "Rorate, Caeli" - EMBER WEDNESDAY. Fast and Partial Abstinence. VIOLET

• December 15 Missa "Gaudete in Domino" - FERIA DAY. ROSE

• December 16 Missa "Prope es Tu" - EMBER FRIDAY. Fast and Absolute Abstinence. VIOLET

• December 17 Missa "Veni, et osténde" - EMBER SATURDAY. Fast and Partial Abstinence. VIOLET

• December 18 Missa "Rorate Caeli" - FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT. VIOLET

• December 19 Missa "Rorate Caeli" - FERIA. VIOLET

• December 20 Missa "Ego autem" - Vigil of Saint Thomas the Apostle. VIOLET

• December 21 Missa "Mihi autem" - Double of the Second Class Feast of SAINT THOMAS, APOSTLE. RED

• December 22 Missa "Tenuisti manum" - Double of the Second Class Feast of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin and Missionary. WHITE

• December 23 Missa "Rorate Caeli" - FERIA. Last Day of Advent. VIOLET

• December 24 Missa "Hodie scietis" - Vigil of the NATIVITY. VIOLET

• December 25 TRILOGY OF CHRISTMAS MASSES for THE SOLEMNITY OF THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. WHITE OR GOLD
  • Christmas Midnight Mass Missa "Dominus dixit" WHITE OR GOLD

  • Christmas Mass at Dawn Missa "Lux fulgebit" WHITE OR GOLD

  • Christmas Mass During the Day Missa "Puer natus est" WHITE OR GOLD