Vhiki yaDecember 24 2018
Bhuku raIsaya 9,1-6.
Vanhu vaifamba murima vakaona chiedza chikuru; Chiedza chakapenya kune avo vaigara mune rima.
Makawedzera mufaro, makawedzera mufaro. Vanofara pamberi pako apo unofara kana uchikohwa uye uye unofara sei kana uchigovera mhuka.
Zvejoko raimuremera uye bara iri pamapfudzi ake, iyo tsvimbo yeanomutambudza iwe wamatyora senge panguva yaMidhiani.
Sezvo bhutsu yemasoja ese muhari uye jira rimwe nerimwe rakacheneswa neropa richinge rapiswa, rinobuda mumoto.
Nekuti mwana wakaberekerwa isu, isu takapihwa mwanakomana. Pamapfudzi ake pane chiratidzo cheuchangamire uye anonzi: Anodiwa Anopa zano, ane simba Mwari, Baba nekusingaperi, Muchinda woRunyararo;
kutonga kwake kuchava kukuru uye rugare harungagumi pachigaro choushe chaDhavhidhi nepamusoro poushe, hwaanouya kuzosimbisa nekusimbisa nemutemo nekutonga, ikozvino uye nguva dzose; izvi zvichaita kushingairira kwaIshe.
Salmi 96(95),1-2a.2b-3.11-12.13.
Imbira rwiyo rutsva kuna Ishe,
Imbirai Jehovha, pasi pese.
Imbira Mwari, rumbidzai zita rake.
Paridza kuponeswa kwake zuva nezuva;
Paridzai kubwinya kwako pakati pendudzi.
Ndudzi dzose dzaiudza zvishamiso zvako.
Matenga ngaafarire, uye nyika ngaifare,
gungwa nezvakadzika zvinozununguka;
farai minda nezviri mukati,
miti yedondo ngaifare.
Farai pamberi paIshe anouya.
nekuti anouya kuzotonga pasi.
Achatonga nyika nokutonga
uye zvirokwazvo vanhu vese.
Tsamba yaMutsvene Paul Mupostora kunaTito 2,11-14.
Zvinodikanwa, nyasha dzaMwari dzakaratidzwa, dzichiunza ruponeso kuvanhu vese,
rinotidzidzisa kuramba humwari uye zvishuviro zvepanyika uye nekurarama zvine hunyoro, kururamisira uye netsitsi munyika ino,
kumirira tariro yakaropafadzwa uye kuratidzwa kwekubwinya kwaMwari wedu mukuru uye muponesi Jesu Kristu;
wakazvipa nekuda kwedu, kuti atidzikunure pakuipa kose, kuti tigadzire vanhu vake, vanoshingairira mabasa akanaka.
Kubva muEvangeri raJesu Kristu maererano naRuka 2,1-14.
Mumazuva iwayo chirevo chaKesari Agasto chakaraira kuti kuverenga kwenyika yose kuitwe.
Kuverenga uku kwekutanga kwakaitwa nguva iyo Quirinius ari gavhuna weSiria.
Vese vakaenda kunonyoreswa, mumwe nemumwe muguta rake.
Zvino Josefa, waibva kuimba nemisha yaDavidi, akaendawo kuguta reNazareta neGarirea, akaenda kuguta raDhavhidhi, rinonzi Bheterehemu-Judhiya,
kunyoresa nemukadzi wake Maria, uyo aive nemimba.
Zvino vakati vachiri panzvimbo iyoyo, mazuva ekubereka akazvadziswa.
Akazvara mwanakomana wake wedangwe, ndokumuputira nemicheka akamugadzika muchidyiro, nekuti makanga musina nzvimbo yavo muimba yevaeni.
Kwakave nevafudzi munzvimbo iyoyo vaitarisa husiku vachichengetedza zvipfuyo zvavo.
Mutumwa waIshe akazviratidza pamberi pavo uye kubwinya kwaIshe kwakavafukidza mumwenje. Vakabatwa nekutya kukuru,
Asi mutumwa akati kwavari: Musatya; tarirai, ndinokuparidzirai mufaro mukuru uchava kuvanhu vose;
nhasi kwakazvarwa muguta raDhavhidhi muponesi, unova Kristu Ishe.
Ichi chiratidzo chako: iwe uchawana mucheka akaputirwa mumachira, akarara muchidyiro.
Uye pakarepo chaunga chedenga chakazviratidza nemutumwa vachirumbidza Mwari vachiti:
"Mbiri kuna Mwari kudenga kumusoro-soro uye rugare pasi kune varume vaanoda."