Friday, 25 December 2020

Mirabile mysterium declaratur hodie

The adoration of the shepherds. J-J Tissot. 
Puer natus est nobis
A child is born to us [Isaias ix. 6]

Laudate Dominum, omnes Gentes: laudate eum omnes populi: Quoniam confirmata est super nos misericordia eius: et veritas Domini manet in aeternum.

O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. Quoniam confirmata est super nos misericordia ejus, et veritas Domini manet in aeternum. [Ps. cxvi]








Mirabile mysterium declaratur hodie,

innovantur naturae; 

Deus homo factus est;

id quod fuit, permansit,

et quod non erat, assumpsit,

non commixtionem passus neque divisionem.

 

A wondrous mystery is this day declared,

New natures are delivered;

God is made man;

That which He was, He remains,

and that which He was not, He takes on,

yet suffering neither confusion nor division.

[From the Antiphon sung before the Canticle of Zachary during Christmas Lauds in the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary]


Totus tuus ego sum
Et omnia mea tua sunt;
Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam. 

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