MONDAY, DECEMBER 3   White vestments

Memorial: St Frances Xavier, priest
St Birinus
Readings: Is 4:2-6    Ps: 121     Mt 8:5-11

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4   Purple vestments

Optional Memorial: St John Damascus, priest
SS Barbara, Osmund
Readings: Is 11:1-10   Ps: 71   Lk 10:21-24

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5   Purple vestments

SS Sabas, Christina of Markyate, Justinian,Crispina, Galgano
Readings: Is 25:6-10   Ps 22   Mt 15:29-37

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6    Purple vestments

Optional Memorial: St Nicholas, Bishop
Readings:  Is 26:1-6   Ps 117   Mt 7:21.24-27

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7   White vestments

Memorial: St Ambrose, bishop
Readings: Is 29:17-24   Ps 26      Mt 9:27-31

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8     White vestments

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
St Budoc
Readings:  Gen 3:9-15, 20    Ps 97   Eph 1:3-6. 11-12    Lk 1:26-38

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9    Purple vestments

Second Sunday of Advent
Readings: Is 11:1-10   Ps 71   Rom 15:4-9   Mt 3:1-12