DIVINUM OFFICIUM Chapter

Capitulum

Christmas Day - Lauds - Hebr. 1:1-2

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.

SCRIPTVRA
Hebrews 1:1-2
LATINE
Multifariam, multisque modis olim Deus loquens patribus in prophetis: novissime diebus istis locutus est nobis in Filio, quem constituit heredem universorum, per quem fecit et saecula. R. Deo gratias.
ENGLISH
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets: last of all, in these days hath spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world. R. Thanks be to God.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Christmas Day - Lauds - Hebr. 1:1-2
HORA
Lauds
GENVS
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