DIVINUM OFFICIUM Antiphon

Antiphona 4

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
Facta est cum Angelo multitudo caelestis exercitus laudantium Deum, et dicentium: Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis, alleluia.
ENGLISH
With the Angel was a multitude of the heavenly army, praising God and saying: Glory to God in the highest; and on earth, peace to men of good will, alleluia.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Christmas Day - Lauds
HORA
Lauds
GENVS
Antiphon