7 Replies to “Christmas Proclamation”

  1. Just, FYI….
    Christmas IS NOT the eighth day of the lunar month this year. Is that supposed to refer to the lunar date currently, or to the lunar date of December 25th, year 0?

  2. Doing a little research, this year Christmas falls on the 19th day of the lunar month, while last year it was indeed the 8th day as the alternate proclamation above has it. But, then, should it in fact refer to year 0 as Adam asks, or not? The English text seems to refer to the current year, but it is not fully clear.

  3. Wow! a whole day to learn it. But totally worth the work. Luckily I have 6 masses to do before Midnight Mass – plenty of homilies for a little quiet humming!
    Thank you for posting this.
    When are the Simple Propers for January arriving?
    These have opened up the chant floodgates at our parish
    John Balme

  6. Figulus: The Latin has "Innumeris transactis saeculis a creatione mundi…" and "…permultis etiam saeculis…." You may be thinking of the preconciliar version of the Kalends, which gives specific numbers of years before the Nativity for the various events of salvation history.

  7. Adam, there's no "Year 0". 1BC is followed by AD1, the year of our Lord's birth as originally calculated. AD 2000 was therefore the millennial
    year, the last year of the second millennium.
    If modern scholars are right and our Lord was born in 3BC the millennial year was 1997 which was marked by a spectacular comet – remember Hale-Bopp?

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