[mosesdapoet]

In the old rite (Latin) which I call universal the period of The Solemnity of Christmas (the way Christmas was observed) included Sundays following Christmas and went beyond New Year ending at the Feast of the Holy Family. Which went past the Epiphany and the Feast of the Holy Innocents and the Flight into Egypt.

What were those Sundays liturgy (gospel and other readings) dedicated to ? They were on events as the Child consummated God’s compact with the Jews before and after Circumcision (New Tear). I’m asking because I forget what they were.

[CMRosary]

The Christmas Season, as you know, comprises the forty days between the Birth of Our Lord and Our Lady’s Purification, on the 2^nd day of February. Throughout this season, two characteristics mark the Liturgy: joy at the coming of the divine Word in the Flesh, and admiration of that glorious Virgin who was made the Mother of God. The Gospels (Luke ii. 42-52, John ii. 1-11 and Matthew viii. 1-13, 23-27) for the four Sundays following Epiphany focus on Jesus’s miracles.