Text and Illustrations taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.
Artist: Gerard van Honthorst (1590–1656).
The Adoration of the Shepherds.
Date: 25 December 1622.
Current location: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum.
Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.
DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202.
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23 December: Isaias vii. 14, xxxiii. 22.
O Emmanuel,
Rex et legifer noster,
exspectatio Gentium,
et Salvator earum:
veni ad salvandum nos,
Domine Deus noster.
O Emmanuel,
our King and Lawgiver,
the expected of the nations
and their Saviour,
come to save us,
O Lord our God.
"Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant justium . . ."
"Ye heavens, drop down from above, and let the clouds rain down the Just One."
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