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Wisdom 18 : 14 f.: an Early Christmas Text

Wisdom 18 : 14 f.: an Early Christmas Text 97 WISDOM 18 : 14 f.: AN EARLY CHRISTMAS TEXT BY ALLEN CABANISS In the current M issale Romanum the Introit of the Mass for Sunday within the Octave of Christmas, if it falls on December 29, 30, or 31, is a passage (slightly emended) from Wisdom 18 : 14 f., as follows: Dum medium silentium tenerent omnia, et nox in suo cursu medium iter haberet, omnipotens sermo tuus, Domine, de caelis a regalibus sedibus venit. 1 It is rendered into English thus: "While all things were in quiet silence, and night was in the midst of her swift course, Thine almighty Word, 0 Lord, leaped down from heaven out of Thy royal throne." 2 The same sentence is also the Introit of Mass for the second Sunday after Christmas which by tradition is perpetually reposed on the Vigil of Epiphany. 3 As indicated in the notes to the Latin quotation above, it is moreover employed in the Bene- dictine Breviarium Monasticum as an antiphon, first, on Magni fica-t at first Vespers of the Sunday within Christmas Octave (if it falls on December 29, 30, or 31), then on Benedictus at Lauds of the Vigil of Epiphany. 4 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vigiliae Christianae Brill

Wisdom 18 : 14 f.: an Early Christmas Text

Cabaniss, Allen
Vigiliae Christianae , Volume 10 (1): 97 – Jan 1, 1956
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© 1956 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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10.1163/157007256X00106
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97 WISDOM 18 : 14 f.: AN EARLY CHRISTMAS TEXT BY ALLEN CABANISS In the current M issale Romanum the Introit of the Mass for Sunday within the Octave of Christmas, if it falls on December 29, 30, or 31, is a passage (slightly emended) from Wisdom 18 : 14 f., as follows: Dum medium silentium tenerent omnia, et nox in suo cursu medium iter haberet, omnipotens sermo tuus, Domine, de caelis a regalibus sedibus venit. 1 It is rendered into English thus: "While all things were in quiet silence, and night was in the midst of her swift course, Thine almighty Word, 0 Lord, leaped down from heaven out of Thy royal throne." 2 The same sentence is also the Introit of Mass for the second Sunday after Christmas which by tradition is perpetually reposed on the Vigil of Epiphany. 3 As indicated in the notes to the Latin quotation above, it is moreover employed in the Bene- dictine Breviarium Monasticum as an antiphon, first, on Magni fica-t at first Vespers of the Sunday within Christmas Octave (if it falls on December 29, 30, or 31), then on Benedictus at Lauds of the Vigil of Epiphany. 4

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Published: Jan 1, 1956

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