Here is the entry in the Roman Martyrology for today’s feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary:
Festum Nativitatis beatae Mariae Virginis, ex semine Abrahae, de tribu Iuda ortae, ex progenie regis David, e qua Filius Dei natus est, factus homo de Spiritu Sancto, ut homines vetusta servitute peccati liberaret.
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Ave Maria!!!
The feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, of the seed of Abraham, arising from the tribe of Judah, of the offspring of King David, from her was born the Son of God, being made man by the Holy Spirit, that mankind should be freed from the old bondage of sin.
Here’s my attempt. I feel it could be “smoother”:
The feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, out of the seed of Abraham, begotten of the tribe of Judah, out of the progeny of King David; from whom the Son of God was born, made man from the Holy Spirit, so that he would free men from the ancient slavery of sin.
“The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning.
I was set up from eternity, and of old before the earth was made.
The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived. neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out:
The mountains with their huge bulk had not as yet been established: before the hills I was brought forth:
He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world.
When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law and compass he enclosed the depths:
When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters:
When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when be balanced the foundations of the earth;
I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times;
Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men.
Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways.
Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.
Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.
He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord:
But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.”
Proverbs 8:22-35
Today is, for the Order of Malta, the Feast of Our Lady of Philermo. The feast dates back to their days on Rhodes, where in the town of Philermo, there was an icon of Our Lady which tradition holds was painted by St. Luke.
Through Our Lady’s intercession on this day, her day, the great Siege of Malta was lifted in 1565, a result so catastrophic for the Musulman’s that they never again attacked the Knights at their home. Their history afterwards is a history of defeats – Lepanto 1571, the Siege of Vienna 1683, the loss of Hungary and Serbia to the Habsburgs in the Treaty of Passorowitz in 1718, etc. So remember that this is a great day for Christendom!
EoinOBolguidhir, Thanks for the reminder. I love the Order of Malta and wish they would gain back their love of the Tridentine Mass, which in Malta, is still, despite rumors, oppressed. Malta is still under siege but by liberal clergy. Links–http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/open-letter-to-knights-of-st-john.html
and
http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/second-open-letter-to-knights-of-malta.html
“…ut homines vetusta servitute peccati liberaret.”
I prefer might here: That he might free men from the ancient bondage of sin.