This is an unusual day in the pre-1955 calendar.
If either St. Stephen, St. John or the Holy Innocents fall on a Sunday, that feast is celebrated and the Sunday within the Octave is transferred to Dec 30. This is what happened this year.
Everything is so well planned and each of these major feasts is celebrated every year. None of them gets bumped by another. You get the fullness of the Liturgical season. Instead compare it to the 1962 Missal. There Dec 29 - 31 are all feria days of Christmas which demotes St. Thomas a Becket and Pope St. Sylvester to a mere commemoration.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, save souls!
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