This text, The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, may be recited, most
appropriately on December 24 as well as on Christmas Day
with your family in your home.

The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ

The Twenty-fifth Day of December,

when ages beyond number had run their course
from the creation of the world,

when God in the beginning created heaven and earth,
and formed man in his own likeness;

when century upon century had passed since the Almighty
set his bow in the clouds after the Great Flood,
as a sign of covenant and peace;

in the twenty-first century since Abraham, our father
in faith, came out of Ur of the Chaldees;

in the thirteenth century since the People of Israel were led
by Moses in the Exodus from Egypt;

around the thousandth year since David was anointed King;

in the sixty-fifth week of the prophecy of Daniel;

in the one hundred and ninety-fourth Olympiad;

in the year seven hundred and fifty-two since
the foundation of the City of Rome;

in the forty-second year of the reign of Caesar Octavian
Augustus,the whole world being at peace,