For those looking for the Ordo, just a reminder that you can find a short version of the notes on the page on the blog, or buy the ebook (or hardcopy) through Lulu for more detailed ones.
By way of orientation, we are currently in a period of the office confected following the abolition of most of the octaves in the office: keep in mind that the Ordinary is of Nativitytide, and the Matins readings are of the date.
In earlier times, the Sunday (as it still is in the EF) would have been the Holy Name of Jesus, and indeed it is not clear that the 1962 'reformers' ever got around to actually constructing an actual Mass for the 'Second Sunday after the Nativity'.
The other days in this period were the octave days of the various post Christmas feasts (Jan 2=St Stephen, unless displaced by the Sunday; Jan 3=St John; Jan 4=Holy Innocents; Jan 5=Vigil of the Epiphany). The 2002 Novus Ordo calendar actually restored the Vigil of the Epiphany (where it is not celebrated on the Sunday).
You can find the instructions for the previous pattern in the Antiphonale Monasticum from page 284.
In the Ordinary Form in many countries, we have the even greater weirdness that is 'Epiphany Sunday', so that instead of the twelve days of Christmas, this year there are only 7....
