My LORD’s BibleThe Roman Missal: Proper of Saints, November 29 to January 31 (English) 9
1[December 8. The Conception of the B. V. Mary. Double of the Second Class, with an Octave.]
4[Then a Commemoration of the Feria.]
5Lesson. Proverbs viii. 22—35. 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 there; 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 he 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 delight is 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.
6Gradual. Thou art blessed and venerable, O virgin Mary, who without any violation of purity, wert found the mother of our Saviour.—O virgin mother of God, he whom the whole world is unable to contain, being made man, enclosed himself in thy womb. Alleluia, alleluia.—Thou art happy, O holy virgin Mary, and most worthy of all praise, because from thee arose the sun of justice, Christ our God. Alleluia.
7Gospel. St Matthew i. 1—16. The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham begot Isaac; and Isaac begot Jacob; and Jacob begot Judas, and his brethren; and Judas begot Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begot Esron; and Esron begot Aram; and Aram begot Aminadab; and Aminadab begot Naasson; and Naasson begot Salmon; and Salmon begot Booz of Rahab; and Booz begot Obed of Ruth; and Obed begot Jesse; and Jesse begot David the king. And David the king begot Solomon, of her who had been the wife of Urias; and Solomon begot Roboam; and Roboam begot Abia; and Abia begot Asa; and Asa begot Josaphat; and Josaphat begot Joram; and Joram begot Ozias; and Ozias begot Joatham; and Joatham begot Achaz; and Achaz begot Ezechias; and Ezechias begot Manasses; and Manasses begot Amon; and Amon begot Josias; and Josias begot Jechonias and his brethren in the transmigration of Babylon. And, after the transmigration of Babylon, Jechonias begot Salathiel; and Salathiel begot Zorobabel; and Zorobabel begot Abiud; and Abiud begot Eliacim; and Eliacim begot Azor; and Azor begot Sadoc; and Sadoc begot Achim; and Achim begot Eliud; and Eliud begot Eleazar; and Eleazar begot Mathan; and Mathan begot Jacob; and Jacob begot Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus; who is called Christ.
8[Credo; which is said every day during the Octave:]
9Offertory. Thou art blessed, O virgin Mary, who didst bear the Creator of all things: thou didst bring forth him who made thee, and thou remainest for ever a virgin.
10Secret. May the humanity of thy only-begotten Son be our succour, O Lord; that Jesus Christ our Lord, who, when born of a virgin did not diminish, but consecrated the integrity of his mother, may on this solemnity of her conception, deliver us from our sins, and make our oblation acceptable to thee. Who lives and reigns, &c.
11[Preface of the B. Virgin, Et te in conceptione, (page 21), which is said during the Octave:]
13Postcom. Sumpsimus. We have received, O Lord, the votive mysteries of this annual celebration; grant, we beseech thee, that they may confer upon us remedies for time and eternity. Through our Lord, &c.
14[During the Octave, the Mass is the same as on the Feast; but a second Prayer is said of the Feria, and a third of the Holy Ghost, as page lxiv., or of any Saint whose feast may occur, being a Simple only. On Sunday, however, the second prayer is of the Octave, and on the Octave Day only one Prayer is said.]