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The Cornerstone
-- a quarterly parish newsletter
Advent 1998
Volume One, Issue I
LITURGY NOTES
Christmas Praeconium
"At the Office of Prime, in cathedral chapters and
monasteries, the announcement of tomorrow’s feast
[the Nativity of Our Lord] is made with unusual
solemnity. The lector sings, to a magnificent chant, the
following lesson from the martyrology. All remain
standing during it, until the lector comes to the word
Bethlehem, at which all genuflect, and continue in that
posture until the glad tidings are told."—Abbot
Gueranger, O.S.B.
The Christmas Vigil
Mass at Old St. Mary’s commences with the following
Christmas praeconium, which is chanted from the high
pulpit.
The Eighth of the
Calends of January
The year from the creation of the world, when in the
beginning God created Heaven and Earth, five thousand one
hundred and ninety-nine: from the deluge, the year two
thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven: from the birth of
Abraham, the year two thousand and fifteen: from Moses
and the going out of the people of Israel from Egypt, the
year one thousand five hundred and ten: from David’s
being anointed king, the year one thousand and thirty
two: in the sixty fifth week according to the prophecy of
Daniel: in the one hundred and ninety-fourth Olympiad:
from the building of the city of Rome, the year seven
hundred and fifty-two: in the forty second year of the
reign of Octavian Augustus: the whole world being in
peace: in the sixth age of the world: Jesus Christ, the
eternal God, and Son of the eternal Father, wishing to
consecrate this world by His most merciful coming, being
conceived of the Holy Ghost, and nine months since His
conception having passed, in Bethlehem of Juda, is born
of the Virgin Mary, being made man: The Nativity of Our
Lord Jesus Christ According to the Flesh.
Copyright © 2000-2006 Old St. Mary's
Church. All rights reserved.
Revised:
January 29, 2006
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Questions and comments
should be directed to the E-Mail address below.
oldstmarys@oldstmarys.org
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