DIVINUM OFFICIUM Antiphon

Antiphona 5

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
Parvulus filius hodie natus est nobis: et vocabitur Deus, Fortis, alleluia, alleluia.
ENGLISH
A Little Child is, this day, born unto us, and he shall be called God, the Mighty One, alleluia, alleluia.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Christmas Day - Lauds
HORA
Lauds
GENVS
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