Hodie nobis de caelo pax vera descendit: * Hodie per totum mundum mellíflui facti sunt caeli. V. Hodie illuxit nobis dies redemptiónis novae, reparatiónis antíquae, felicitátis aeternae. R. Hodie per totum mundum mellíflui facti sunt cæli. (The second responsory of Christmas Matins.)
R. This day is the true peace come down unto us from heaven. * This day throughout the whole world the skies drop down sweetness. V. This day hath shone upon us the day of our new redemption, of the restoring of the old, of everlasting happiness. R. This day throughout the whole world the skies drop down sweetness.
R. This day is the true peace come down unto us from heaven. * This day throughout the whole world the skies drop down sweetness. V. This day hath shone upon us the day of our new redemption, of the restoring of the old, of everlasting happiness. R. This day throughout the whole world the skies drop down sweetness.
On behalf of all the publisher and writers of New Liturgical Movement, I wish all of our readers a Merry Christmas, and every blessing from the Child that is born unto us! By the prayers of the Holy Mother of God and all the Saints, may God grant the world peace in the coming year.
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| The Nativity of Christ, by Pietro Cavallini, Santa Maria in the Trastevere, Rome, 1296-1300 |
