DIVINUM OFFICIUM Antiphon

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Christmas Day - Lauds

Proper text for the Nativity of Our Lord (December 25), the greatest feast of the Christmas season. This Class I feast celebrates the Incarnation: God becoming man in the womb of the Virgin Mary. The Office texts draw from Isaiah's prophecies and the Gospel accounts, emphasizing the theological mystery that the eternal Word took flesh for our salvation.

LATINE
Genuit puerpera Regem, cui nomen aeternum, et gaudia matris habens cum virginitatis honore: nec primam similem visa est, nec habere sequentem, alleluia.
ENGLISH
The Mother has given birth to the King, whose name is eternal: she has both a Mother's joy and a Virgin's privilege: not one has ever been, or shall ever be, like her, alleluia.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Christmas Day - Lauds
HORA
Lauds
GENVS
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