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The Annunciation of the Lord
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If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, you should precede it with the Invitatory Psalm.
Deus, in adiutórium meum inténde.
Dómine, ad adiuvándum me festína.
Glória Patri et Fílio*
et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio et nunc et semper*
et in sǽcula sæculórum.
Amen.
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O God, come to our aid.
O Lord, make haste to help us.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.
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Iam cæca vis mortálium
vénerans inánes nǽnias,
vel æra vel saxa álgida
vel ligna credébat Deum.
Hæc dum sequúntur pérfidi,
prædónis in ius vénerant
et mancipátam fúmido
vitam baráthro immérserant.
Stragem sed istam non tulit
Christus cadéntum géntium;
impúne ne forsan sui
Patris períret fábrica,
Mortále corpus índuit
ut, excitáto córpore,
mortis caténam frángeret
hominémque portáret Patri.
Hic ille natális dies,
quo te Creátor árduus
spirávit et limo índidit,
Sermóne carnem glútinans.
O quanta rerum gáudia
alvus pudíca cóntinet,
ex qua novéllum sǽculum
procédit et lux áurea!
Iesu, tibi sit glória,
qui natus es de Vírgine,
cum Patre et almo Spíritu,
in sempitérna sǽcula. Amen.
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Hail, of paradise the portal!
Tree of Life regained, immortal;
Whence, through thee, all sweetness floweth,
And salvation’s fruit still groweth.
Thou our hearts aright inclinest,
On our life’s way brightly shinest;
Us from God’s just anger savest,
Who to man our Saviour gavest.
Hail! Blest shrine of God the Father,
Thither sinners haste to gather;
Pardon for their guilt obtaining,
Freedom from the foe’s enchaining;
Strength from thee the weak shall borrow,
Comfort, thou, of all who sorrow;
From the final wrath tremendous,
Mother of our Christ, defend us.
Star of ocean! Mother fairest!
Who the name of Mary bearest;
In thy bright illumination
Pales each star and constellation.
Hail, O Father! Hail, sweet Mother!
Hail, O Son of God, our Brother!
Let the hosts of heaven adore thee,
Every spirit bow before thee.
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Ps 2:1-12
| Psalm 2
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Ps 18:2-7
| Psalm 18 (19)
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Ps 44:2-18
| Psalm 44 (45)
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℣. Verbum caro factum est.
℟. Et habitávit in nobis.
| ℣. The word was made flesh.
℟. He dwelt amongst us.
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Vaticinium de filio David1Cum habitáret David in domo sua, dixit ad Nathan prophétam: «Ecce ego hábito in domo cédrina, arca autem fœ́deris Dómini sub péllibus est». 2Et ait Nathan ad David: «Omnia, quæ in corde tuo sunt, fac; Deus enim tecum est».
3Igitur nocte illa factus est sermo Dei ad Nathan dicens: 4«Vade et lóquere David servo meo: Hæc dicit Dóminus: Non ædificábis tu mihi domum ad habitándum; 5neque enim mansi in domo ex eo témpore, quo edúxi Israel usque ad hanc diem, sed fui semper migrans de tabernáculo in tabernáculum et de habitatióne in habitatiónem. 6Ubicúmque ambulábam in omni Israel, numquid locútus sum uni iúdicum Israel, quibus præcéperam, ut páscerent pópulum meum, et dixi: Quare non ædificástis mihi domum cédrinam? 7Nunc ítaque, sic loquéris ad servum meum David: Hæc dicit Dóminus exercítuum: Ego tuli te, cum in páscuis sequeréris gregem, ut esses dux pópuli mei Israel; 8et fui tecum, quocúmque perrexísti, et interféci omnes inimícos tuos coram te fecíque tibi nomen quasi uníus magnórum, qui celebrántur in terra. 9Et dedi locum pópulo meo Israel et plantávi eum, ut habitáret in eo, et ultra non commovébitur, nec fílii iniquitátis átterent eos sicut in principio 10et ex diébus, quibus dedi iúdices pópulo meo Israel et humiliávi univérsos inimícos tuos. Annúntio ergo tibi quod ædificatúrus sit domum tibi Dóminus. 11Cumque impléveris dies tuos, ut vadas ad patres tuos, suscitábo semen tuum post te, quod erit de fíliis tuis, et stabíliam regnum eius. 12Ipse ædificábit mihi domum, et firmábo sólium eius usque in ætérnum. 13Ego ero ei in patrem, et ipse erit mihi in fílium; et misericórdiam meam non áuferam ab eo, sicut ábstuli ab eo, qui ante te fuit. 14Et státuam eum in domo mea et in regno meo usque in sempitérnum et thronus eius erit firmíssimus in perpétuum».
15Iuxta ómnia verba hæc et iuxta univérsam visiónem istam, sic locútus est Nathan ad David.
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The oracle of the prophet NathanOnce David had settled into his house, he said to the prophet Nathan, ‘Here am I living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the Lord’s covenant is still beneath the awning of a tent.’ Nathan said to David, ‘Do all that is in your mind, for God is with you.’
But that very night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, ‘Go and tell my servant David, “The Lord says this: You are not the man to build me a house to dwell in. I have never stayed in a house from the day I brought Israel out until today, but went from tent to tent, from one shelter to another. In all my journeying with the whole of Israel, did I say to any one of the judges of Israel, whom I had appointed as shepherds of my people: Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”
‘This is what you must say to my servant David: “The Lord of Hosts says this: I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be leader of my people Israel. I have been with you on all your expeditions; I have cut off all your enemies before you. I will give you fame as great as the fame of the greatest on earth. I will provide a place for my people Israel; I will plant them there and they shall live in that place and never be disturbed again; nor shall the wicked continue to destroy them, as they did in the days when I appointed judges over my people Israel; I will subdue all their enemies. I will make you great; the Lord will make you a House. And when your days are ended and you must go to your ancestors, I will preserve your offspring after you, a son of your own, and make his sovereignty secure. It is he who shall build a house for me and I will make his throne firm for ever. I will be a father to him and he a son to me. I will not withdraw my favour from him, as I withdrew it from your predecessor. I will preserve him for ever in my house and in my kingdom; and his throne shall be established for ever.”’
Nathan related all these words to David and this whole revelation.
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℟. Missus est Gábriel ángelus ad Maríam Vírginem desponsátam Ioseph, núntians ei verbum; et expavéscit Virgo de lúmine. Ne tímeas, María, invenísti grátiam apud Dóminum:* Ecce concípies et páries et vocábitur Altíssimi Fílius.
℣. Ave, María, grátia plena; Dóminus tecum.* Ecce.
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℟. The angel Gabriel was sent to announce the word to Mary, a virgin betrothed to Joseph, and she began to fear the light. ‘Mary, do not be afraid, you have won the Lord’s favour:* You are to conceive and bear a son; he shall be called Son of the Most High.’
℣. ‘Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.* You are to conceive and bear a son; he shall be called Son of the Most High.’
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Sacramentum reconciliationis nostræSuscépta est a maiestáte humílitas, a virtúte infírmitas, ab æternitáte mortálitas; et ad resolvéndum condiciónis nostræ débitum, natúra inviolábilis natúræ est uníta passíbili, ut, quod nostris remédiis congruébat, unus atque idem mediátor Dei et hóminum, homo Iesus Christus, et mori posset ex uno et mori non posset ex áltero.
In íntegra ergo veri hóminis perfectáque natúra verus natus est Deus, totus in suis, totus in nostris. Nostra autem dícimus, quæ in nobis ab inítio Creátor cóndidit et quæ reparánda suscépit.
Nam illa quæ decéptor íntulit et homo decéptus admísit, nullum habuérunt in Salvatóre vestígium. Nec, quia communiónem humanárum súbiit infirmitátum, ídeo nostrórum fuit párticeps delictórum.
Assúmpsit formam servi sine sorde peccáti, humána augens, divína non mínuens: quia exinanítio illa, qua se invisíbilis visíbilem prǽbuit et Creátor ac Dóminus ómnium rerum unus vóluit esse mortálium, inclinátio fuit miseratiónis, non deféctio potestátis. Proínde, qui manens in forma Dei fecit hóminem, idem in forma servi factus est homo.
Ingréditur ergo hæc mundi ínfima Fílius Dei, de cælésti sede descéndens, et a patérna glória non recédens, novo órdine, nova nativitáte generátus.
Novo órdine, quia, invisíbilis in suis, visíbilis factus est in nostris; incomprehensíbilis, vóluit comprehéndi; ante témpora manens, esse cœpit ex témpore; universitátis Dóminus servílem formam, obumbráta maiestátis suæ immensitáte, suscépit; impassíbilis Deus non dedignátus est homo esse passíbilis, et immortális mortis légibus subiacére.
Qui enim verus est Deus, idem verus est homo, et nullum est in hac unitáte mendácium, dum ínvicem sunt et humílitas hóminis et altitúdo Deitátis.
Sicut enim Deus non mutátur miseratióne, ita homo non consúmitur dignitáte. Agit enim utráque forma, cum alteríus communióne, quod próprium est: Verbo scílicet operánte quod Verbi est, et carne exsequénte quod carnis est.
Unum horum corúscat miráculis, áliud succúmbit iniúriis. Et sicut Verbum ab æqualitáte patérnæ glóriæ non recédit, ita caro natúram nostri géneris non relínquit.
Unus enim idémque est, quod sæpe dicéndum est, vere Dei Fílius, et vere hóminis fílius. Deus per id quod in princípio erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum et Deus erat Verbum; homo per id quod Verbum caro factum est et habitávit in nobis.
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The mystery of man's reconciliation with GodLowliness is assumed by majesty, weakness by power, mortality by eternity. To pay the debt of our sinful state, a nature that was incapable of suffering was joined to one that could suffer. Thus, in keeping with the healing that we needed, one and the same mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ, was able to die in one nature, and unable to die in the other.
He who is true God was therefore born in the complete and perfect nature of a true man, whole in his own nature, whole in ours. By our nature we mean what the Creator had fashioned in us from the beginning, and took to himself in order to restore it.
For in the Saviour there was no trace of what the deceiver introduced and man, being misled, allowed to enter. It does not follow that because he submitted to sharing in our human weakness he therefore shared in our sins.
He took the nature of a servant without stain of sin, enlarging our humanity without diminishing his divinity. He emptied himself; though invisible he made himself visible, though Creator and Lord of all things he chose to be one of us mortal men. Yet this was the condescension of compassion, not the loss of omnipotence. So he who in the nature of God had created man, became in the nature of a servant, man himself.
Thus the Son of God enters this lowly world. He comes down from the throne of heaven, yet does not separate himself from the Father’s glory. He is born in a new condition, by a new birth.
He was born in a new condition, for, invisible in his own nature, he became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, he chose to come within our grasp. Existing before time began, he began to exist at a moment in time. Lord of the universe, he hid his infinite glory and took the nature of a servant. Incapable of suffering as God, he did not refuse to be a man, capable of suffering. Immortal, he chose to be subject to the laws of death.
He who is true God is also true man. There is no falsehood in this unity as long as the lowliness of man and the pre-eminence of God coexist in mutual relationship.
As God does not change by his condescension, so man is not swallowed up by being exalted. Each nature exercises its own activity, in communion with the other. The Word does what is proper to the Word, the flesh fulfils what is proper to the flesh.
One nature is resplendent with miracles, the other falls victim to injuries. As the Word does not lose equality with the Father’s glory, so the flesh does not leave behind the nature of our race.
One and the same person – this must be said over and over again – is truly the Son of God and truly the son of man. He is God in virtue of the fact that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He is man in virtue of the fact that the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.
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℟. Súscipe verbum, Virgo María, quod tibi a Dómino per Angelum transmíssum est: concípies et páries Deum páriter et hóminem,* Ut benedícta dicáris inter omnes mulíeres.
℣. Páries quidem fílium et virginitátis non patiéris detriméntum: efficiéris grávida et eris mater semper intácta. *Ut benedícta.
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℟. Virgin Mary, receive the word of the Lord brought to you by the angel: You will conceive and bear a son, both God and man.* You will be called, Blessed among all women.
℣. You will indeed bear a son, yet suffer no loss of virginity; you will be with child, yet remain a mother ever undefiled.* You will be called, Blessed among all women.
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Te Deum laudámus:* te Dóminum confitémur.
Te ætérnum Patrem,* omnis terra venerátur.
Tibi omnes ángeli,*
tibi cæli et univérsæ potestátes:
tibi chérubim et séraphim*
incessábili voce proclámant:
Sanctus,* Sanctus,* Sanctus*
Dóminus Deus Sábaoth.
Pleni sunt cæli et terra* maiestátis glóriæ tuæ.
Te gloriósus* Apostolórum chorus,
te prophetárum* laudábilis númerus,
te mártyrum candidátus* laudat exércitus.
Te per orbem terrárum*
sancta confitétur Ecclésia,
Patrem* imménsæ maiestátis;
venerándum tuum verum* et únicum Fílium;
Sanctum quoque* Paráclitum Spíritum.
Tu rex glóriæ,* Christe.
Tu Patris* sempitérnus es Fílius.
Tu, ad liberándum susceptúrus hóminem,*
non horruísti Vírginis úterum.
Tu, devícto mortis acúleo,*
aperuísti credéntibus regna cælórum.
Tu ad déxteram Dei sedes,* in glória Patris.
Iudex créderis* esse ventúrus.
Te ergo quæsumus, tuis fámulis súbveni,*
quos pretióso sánguine redemísti.
Ætérna fac cum sanctis tuis* in glória numerári.
Haec ultima pars hymni ad libitum omitti potest:
Salvum fac pópulum tuum, Dómine,*
et bénedic hereditáti tuæ.
Et rege eos,* et extólle illos usque in ætérnum.
Per síngulos dies* benedícimus te;
et laudámus nomen tuum in sæculum,*
et in sæculum sæculi.
Dignáre, Dómine, die isto*
sine peccáto nos custodíre.
Miserére nostri, Dómine,* miserére nostri.
Fiat misericórdia tua, Dómine, super nos,*
quemádmodum sperávimus in te.
In te, Dómine, sperávi:*
non confúndar in ætérnum.
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God, we praise you; Lord, we proclaim you!
You, the Father, the eternal –
all the earth venerates you.
All the angels, all the heavens, every power –
The cherubim, the seraphim –
unceasingly, they cry:
“Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts:
heaven and earth are full of the majesty of your glory!”
The glorious choir of Apostles –
The noble ranks of prophets –
The shining army of martyrs –
all praise you.
Throughout the world your holy Church proclaims you.
– Father of immeasurable majesty,
– True Son, only-begotten, worthy of worship,
– Holy Spirit, our Advocate.
You, Christ:
– You are the king of glory.
– You are the Father’s eternal Son.
– You, to free mankind, did not disdain a Virgin’s womb.
– You defeated the sharp spear of Death, and opened the kingdom of heaven to those who believe in you.
– You sit at God’s right hand, in the glory of the Father.
– You will come, so we believe, as our Judge.
And so we ask of you: give help to your servants, whom you set free at the price of your precious blood.
Number them among your chosen ones in eternal glory.
The final part of the hymn may be omitted:
Bring your people to safety, Lord, and bless those who are your inheritance.
Rule them and lift them high for ever.
Day by day we bless you, Lord: we praise you for ever and for ever.
Of your goodness, Lord, keep us without sin for today.
Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us.
Let your pity, Lord, be upon us, as much as we trust in you.
In you, Lord, I trust: let me never be put to shame.
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Oremus.
Deus, qui Verbum tuum in útero Vírginis Maríæ veritátem carnis humánæ suscípere voluísti, concéde, quǽsumus, ut, qui Redemptórem nostrum Deum et hóminem confitémur, ipsíus étiam divínæ natúræ mereámur esse consórtes.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum,
qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus,
per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
Amen.
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Shape us in the likeness of the divine nature of our Redeemer,
whom we believe to be true God and true man,
since it was your will, Lord God,
that he, your Word, should take to himself our human nature
in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
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Benedicámus Dómino.
– Deo grátias.
| Let us praise the Lord.
– Thanks be to God.
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