December 19th - Blessed Urban V and St. Nemesion of Alexandria and other Christans

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December 19th
Taken from The Liturgical Year by Dom Prosper Gueranger (1841-1875)

Responsory of Advent
(The Ambrosian Breviary, Sixth Sunday of Advent)

℟. Beatus uterus Mariæ Virginis qui portavit invisibilem: quem septem throni capere non possunt in eo habitare dignatus est: * Et portabat levem in sinu suo.

℣. Dedit illi Dominus sedem David patris sui, et regnabit in domo Jacob in æternum, cujus regni non erit finis:
* Et portabat levem in sinu suo.


℟. Blessed is the womb of the Virgin Mary, which bore the invisible God: there did He deign to dwell, whom Seven Thrones cannot hold:
* And she bore him as a light weight in her womb.

℣. The Lord hath given him the throne of David his father, and he shall reign in the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end:
* And she bore him as a light weight in her womb.