The Proclamation of the Birth of Christ from the Roman Martyrology (Christmas Proclamation)

[@humboldt777]

Beautiful rendition of a touching proclamation.

[@peanutandoil4578]

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,
JESUS CHRIST, eternal God and Son of the eternal Father,
desiring to consecrate the world by his most loving presence,
was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
and when nine months had passed since his conception,
was born of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem of Judah,
and was made man:
The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to the flesh.

[@mariehayes5281]

Thank you Peanut, for the written words. Very helpful.

[@mpaveglio1884]

Beautiful rendition. Caveat, however: the the final stanza doesn't follow the notation of the Roman Missal's appendix.

[@jasonhuegan7007]

This is a bastardized version.

[@stepheno6256]

Y

[@jasonhuegan7007]

@@stepheno6256
I assume you mean "why." I, also, assume you were born after the Second Vatican Council. Anyhow-
This is not the Kalends of Tradition. The original version put Christ's birth in a historical and temporal context. Sometime in the 1990's, certain elements of the Church (the Society of Jesus) decided to change it because they didn't like the way it was written. The complaints said there weren't any women involved; that the ordering or centuries and years was too literally. The Society actually said that making the Kalends more abstract was actually making it better.
Find the original Martyrology and compare the two. There should be a copy on YT.

[@7687Publius]

​@@jasonhuegan7007 To call it a "bastardized" version an unjust exaggeration. Using that kind of contentious language is uncharitable and seems to be meant to provoke an argument. The first few stanza are less precise, but the Church does not teach and has not ever taught that the dating and genealogy used in scripture was complete or an historically precise record. The rest of the proclamation has not changed much at all. The current version still puts Christ's birth in a historical and temporal context, and is, in fact, more in keeping with what we know about history (i.e. that the universe is billions of years old). I also don't understand your comment about not having any women involved. Are you suggesting that the line that Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary was added? That was in the traditional version (and if it hadn't been, adding it would have been a definite improvement).

[@theosteven3362]

@@jasonhuegan7007 you even got your historical facts wrong. What a dumass. Fck off liturgy worshipper

[@jasonhuegan7007]

@@7687Publius
My Love,
The Reformation and Counter-Reformation were "contentious."
You're one of those dumbed-downed Yanks. Aren't you?