Emmanuel

Mary, in the days of her holy expectation, magnified the Lord;

her spirit rejoiced in the child of her womb, the Son of God.

For when all things lay in silence, and night was in the midst of her course,

there leaped down, O God, from on high, from thy royal throne, the word, thy Christ, thy self;

through woman to be born in human nature, born in time, born in us, and we in him.

Grant me, O God, your divinest gift, that Emmanuel may be formed and born in me, that I may ever rejoice and magnify thee.

Father, let me be born in thee as thee child:

Christ, be born as me as my Lord:

Holy Spirit, travail and shine within; that I may live in thy life and love with thy love evermore and evermore.