Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.* Heaven itself cannot contain the One whom you bore in your womb. (Responsory for the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God)
How great a gift of grace is here! To what merits of their own do the children owe this kind of victory? They cannot speak, yet they bear witness to Christ. They cannot use...
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life -the life...
If we celebrate with such solemnity the birth of Jesus, it is to bear witness that every human being is somebody unique and unrepeatable…somebody thought of and chosen from eternity, some called and identified...
O Immanuel, you are our king and judge, the One whom the peoples await and their Saviour. O come and save us, Lord our God. (O Antiphon for December 23rd)
O King whom all the peoples desire, you are the cornerstone which makes all one. O come and save man, whom you made from clay. (O Antiphon for December 22nd)
Key of David, who open the gates of the eternal kingdom, come to liberate from prison
the captive who lives in darkness. (O Clavis David - O Antiphon for December 20th)