DIVINUM OFFICIUM Antiphon

Antiphona Commemorationis Octavae - ad Magnificat

Commemoratio Octavae Nativitatis - used at Vespers of feasts within the Octave

An antiphon sung at Vespers during Christmastide. Antiphons frame the psalms, giving them their proper liturgical meaning for the day.

LATINE
Hodie Christus natus est: hodie Salvator apparuit: hodie in terra canunt Angeli, laetantur Archangeli: hodie exsultant justi, dicentes: Gloria in excelsis Deo, alleluja.
ENGLISH
This day Christ was born: this day the Saviour appeared: this day the Angels sing on earth, and the Archangels rejoice: this day the just exult, saying, Glory to God in the highest, alleluia.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Commemoratio Octavae Nativitatis - used at Vespers of feasts within the Octave
HORA
Vespers
TEMPVS
christmas
GENVS
Antiphon