From Christmas until Candlemas
Ant.O wondrous union! * The Creator of mankind, taking a living body, vouchsafed to be born of a virgin, and becoming man, without man's concurrence, bestowed upon us His Godhead.
Ant. When Thou wert wondrously born * of a virgin, then were the Scriptures fulfilled: Thou earnest down like the rain upon the fleece, that Thou mightest save mankind. We praise Thee, our God.
PSALM CXII
Glory to God, so infinitely great and so admirably condescending
Praise the Lord, ye servants: praise the name of the Lord.
Blessed be the name of the Lord, from this time forth for evermore.
From the rising of the sun unto its going down, the name of the Lord is worthy to be praised.
The Lord is high above all nations; and His glory is above the heavens.
Who is like unto the Lord our
