During Advent
Ant. Fear not, O Mary: thou hast found grace before the Lord: behold, thou shalt conceive, and shalt bring forth a Son, Alleluia.
From Christmas until Candlemas
Ant. The bush which Moses saw unconsumed, we acknowledge to be thine admirable virginity, which thou didst keep inviolate: Mother of God, plead for us.
From Christmas until Advent
LITTLE CHAPTER
Ecclus. xxiv
And I took root in an honorable people, and in the portion of my God, His inheritance: and my abode is in the full assembly of saints.
R. Thanks be to God.
During Advent
LITTLE CHAPTER
Luke i
The Lord God shall give Him the throne of David his father; and He shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever, and of His kingdom there shall be no end.
