COMMUNION HYMN I: What Child is This? CONCLUDING RITES St. Joseph Catholic Church 1. What Child is this who laid to rest on Mary's lap is sleeping? Whom Angels greet with anthems sweet, while shepherds watch are keeping? FINAL BLESSING AND DISMISSAL Dayton • Ohio This, this is Christ the King, whom shepherds guard and Angels sing; RECESSIONAL: Joy to the World Haste, haste, to bring Him laud, the Babe, the Son of Mary. The Nativity of the Lord 2. Why lies He in such mean estate, where ox and ass are feeding? Good Christians, fear, for sinners here the silent Word is pleading. Christmas Day Nails, spear shall pierce Him through, the cross be borne for me, for you. Hail, hail the Word made flesh, the Babe, the Son of Mary.

3. So bring Him incense, gold and myrrh, come Peasant, King to own Him. The King of Kings salvation brings, let loving hearts enthrone Him. Raise, raise a song on high, the Virgin sings her lullaby. Joy, joy for Christ is born, the Babe, the Son of Mary.

COMMUNION HYMN II: Of the Father’s Love Begotten

POSTLUDE: The First Noel

Blessing of a Manger in a Family Home Make the Sign of the Cross Leader: Our help is in the name of the Lord. All: Who made heaven and earth.

Prayer of Blessing: God of every nation and people, from the very beginning of creation you have made manifest your love: when our need for a Savior was great you sent you Son to be born of the Virgin Mary. To our lives he brings joy and peace, justice, mercy, and love.

Lord, bless all who look upon this manger; may it remind us of the humble birth of , and raise up our thoughts to him, who is God-with-us and Savior of all, and who lives and reigns forever and ever. Amen

PRELUDE

Music reprinted with permission from OneLicense.Net #A-700922. Gloria for Christmastime, Howard Hodie Christus natus est Hughes & Alan Hommerding, © 1990, 2011, World Library Publications. • Psalm 89, The Collegeville Psalter, © 2017, Paul Inwood. Published and administered by Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN 56321 • Christmastime Snow on Snow (In the Bleak Mid-Winter) Alleluia, James J. Chepponis © 1997 GIA Publications, Inc. • A Community , Richard Proulx © 1971, 1977, 2010, GIA Publications, Inc. • Agnus Dei, Richard Proulx © 1975, GIA Publications, Inc. A Christmas Pastorale (SUSSEX CAROL)

INTRODUCTORY RITES SECOND READING Ti 3:4-7 SANCTUS A Community Mass Beloved: When the kindness and generous love of God our savior appeared, INTROIT not because of any righteous deeds we had done but because of his mercy, He Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. saved us through the bath of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he Dominion is on his shoulder and his name shall be called the Angel of Great Counsel. richly poured out on us through Jesus Christ our savior, so that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs in hope of eternal life. PROCESSIONAL O Come, All Ye Faithful GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Christmastime Alleluia

GOSPEL Lk 2:15-20 When the angels went away from them to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go, then, to Bethlehem to see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.” So they went in haste and found Mary

and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger. When they saw this, they made known the message that had been told them about this child. All who heard it MYSTERIUM FIDEI A Community Mass were amazed by what had been told them by the shepherds. And Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart. Then the shepherds returned,

glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, just as it had been told to them.

LITURGY OF THE 1. OFFERTORY: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 2-4. 1. Hark! the herald angels sing: “Glory to the newborn King; GREAT AMEN A Community Mass Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled!” Joyful, all ye nations, rise, join the triumph of the skies; With angelic hosts proclaim: “Christ is born in Bethlehem!” Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King.”

GLORIA Gloria for Christmastime 2. Christ, by highest heav’n adored, Christ, the everlasting Lord; Late in time, behold him come, offspring of a virgin’s womb. AGNUS DEI Proulx Veiled in flesh the Godhead see! Hail th’incarnate Deity!

LITURGY OF THE WORD Pleased as man with us to dwell; Jesus, our Emmanuel! FIRST READING Is 62:11-12 Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King.” See, the LORD proclaims to the ends of the earth: say to daughter Zion, your 3. Hail the heav’n-born Prince of Peace! Hail the Sun of Righteousness! savior comes! Here is his reward with him, his recompense before him. They Light and life to all he brings, ris’n with healing in his wings. shall be called the holy people, the redeemed of the LORD, and you shall be Mild he lays his glory by, born that we no more may die, called “Frequented,” a city that is not forsaken. Born to raise us from the earth, born to give us second birth. Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King.” RESPONSORIAL PSALM Ps 97:1, 6, 11-12.

COMMUNION RITE COMMUNION ANTIPHON All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.