Quia per incarnáti Verbi mystérium nova mentis nostræ óculis lux tuæ claritátis infúlsit: ut, dum visibíliter Deum cognóscimus, per hunc in invisibílium amorem rapiámur...

Concéde, quǽsumus, omnípotens Deus: ut nos Unigéniti tui nova per carnem Natívitas líberet; quos sub peccáti jugo vetústa sérvitus tenet. Per eúndem Dóminum.

A happy and blessed Christmas to all who may read these pages. My own morning involves listening to the Mass in die, Puer natus est nobis et filius datus est nobis, from Le Barroux, and then listening to as much of that Mass from Saint-Eugène (the video recording is here) as I am able to before going out to the 0900 Mass at the parish. (My page is here.) Consequently, will miss the live-stream of Vespers and Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament (the livret is here). But I will finish the Mass when I get back... since am going to have to listen to the video-recording I may postpone Vespers and Benediction until later in the day, nearer to Vespers time here; that the bagels with smoked salmon and cream cheese will be calling loudly at that point is perhaps a secondary consideration in said postponement.

I will repeat the link to my page for the first Mass in nocte of the Nativity Dominus dixit ad me Filius meus es tu); it includes the link to today's Martyrology, for tomorrow the 7th day before the Kalends of January, the feast of Saint Stephen Protomartyr.