In Nativitate Domini 2015: “Merry Christmas”
By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK To wish you and yours a most blessed feast of the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ, I offer the text of the Holy Gospel According to Luke, chapter 2, verses 1-14 proclaimed at midnight Mass, the first of Christmas. The Latin text as proclaimed in our Traditional Latin Masses for “ad primam missam in nocte”: Factum est autem in diebus illis, exiit edictum a Cæsare Augusto ut describeretur universus orbis. Hæc descriptio prima facta est a præside Syriæ Cyrino: et ibant omnes ut profiterentur singuli in suam civitatem. Ascendit autem et Joseph a Galilæa de civitate Nazareth in Judæam, in civitatem David, quæ vocatur Bethlehem: eo quod esset de domo et familia David, ut…Continue Reading