Lessons 4-6 from the Divine Office of the Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Sermon 1 on the Lord's Nativity by Pope St. Leo.
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Lessons 4-6 from the Divine Office of the Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Sermon 1 on the Lord's Nativity by Pope St. Leo. . Dearly beloved: Unto us is born this day a Saviour. Therefore let us rejoice. Sadness should find no place amongst those who keep the Birthday of Life. For as of this day Life came unto us dying creatures, to take away the sting of death, and to bring the bright promise of joy eternal. And no one is excluded from sharing in this our gladness. For all mankind hath one and the same cause thereof, to wit, that our Lord, the Destroyer of sin and death, because He findeth no one free from condemnation, is come to set everyone free. Rejoice, O saint, for thou drawest nearer thy crown! Rejoice, O sinner, for thy Saviour offereth thee pardon! Rejoice, O Jew, for Messias is come. Rejoice, O Gentile, for God calleth thee to life! Now is come the fulness of time, fixed by the unsearchable counsel of God, when the Son of God took upon Him the nature of man, that He might reconcile it to its Maker. Now is come the time when the devil, the inventor of death, is met and beaten in that very flesh which hath been the field of his victory.
Lessons 4-6 from the Divine Office of the Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Sermon 1 on the Lord's Nativity by Pope St. Leo.
Lessons 4-6 from the Divine Office of the…
Lessons 4-6 from the Divine Office of the Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Sermon 1 on the Lord's Nativity by Pope St. Leo.
Lessons 4-6 from the Divine Office of the Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Sermon 1 on the Lord's Nativity by Pope St. Leo. . Dearly beloved: Unto us is born this day a Saviour. Therefore let us rejoice. Sadness should find no place amongst those who keep the Birthday of Life. For as of this day Life came unto us dying creatures, to take away the sting of death, and to bring the bright promise of joy eternal. And no one is excluded from sharing in this our gladness. For all mankind hath one and the same cause thereof, to wit, that our Lord, the Destroyer of sin and death, because He findeth no one free from condemnation, is come to set everyone free. Rejoice, O saint, for thou drawest nearer thy crown! Rejoice, O sinner, for thy Saviour offereth thee pardon! Rejoice, O Jew, for Messias is come. Rejoice, O Gentile, for God calleth thee to life! Now is come the fulness of time, fixed by the unsearchable counsel of God, when the Son of God took upon Him the nature of man, that He might reconcile it to its Maker. Now is come the time when the devil, the inventor of death, is met and beaten in that very flesh which hath been the field of his victory.