The Nativity of Our Lord

In Nativitate Domini in nocte

I class · White · next on Friday, 25 December 2026

Proper

In Nativitate Domini in nocte, mode not recorded, organ accompaniment from Nova Organi Harmonia, part I, pp. 49–54, shown as 33 scanned music systems. These are images of a 1942 printed score and cannot be read by a screen reader.
Chant text · Latin

DOMINUS dixit ad me : Fílius meus es tu, ego hódie génui te. Quare fremuérunt gentes : et pópuli meditáti sunt inánia? Glória Patri. E u o u a e.

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Chant text · Latin

TEcum princípium in die virtútis tuae : in splendóribus sanctórum, ex útero ante lucíferum génui te. Dixit Dóminus Dómino meo : Sede a dextris meis : donec ponam inimícos tuos scabéllum pedum tuórum.

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Gradual: the music, typeset

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Allelúia. Dóminus dixit ad me : Fílius meus es tu, ego hódie génui te.

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Alleluia: the music, typeset

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LAeténtur caeli, et exsúltet terra ante fáciem Dómini : quóniam venit.

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Offertory: the music, typeset

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IN splendóribus sanctórum, ex útero ante lucíferum génui te.

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Communion: the music, typeset

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Ordinary

Missa II — Kyrie fons bonitatis

Kyriale heading: “In Festis Solemnibus” (for Friday, 25 December 2026). NOH (1942) ranks feasts as doubles and semidoubles; the 1962 calendar uses classes. The correspondence used here is approximate.

In Festis Solemnibus 1, mode not recorded, organ accompaniment from Nova Organi Harmonia, part V, pp. 11–17, shown as 39 scanned music systems. These are images of a 1942 printed score and cannot be read by a screen reader.
Chant text · Latin

KYrie eléison. Christe eléison. Kýrie eléison. Kýrie eléison.

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GLória in excélsis Deo. Et in terra pax homínibus bonae voluntátis. Laudámus te. Benedícimus te. Adorámus te. Glorificámus te. Grátias ágimus tibi propter magnam glóriam tuam. Dómine Deus, Rex caeléstis, Deus Pater omnípotens. Dómine Fili unigénite Jesu Christe. Dómine Deus, Agnus Dei, Fílius Patris. Qui tollis peccáta mundi, miserére nobis. Qui tollis peccáta mundi, súscipe deprecatiónem nostram. Qui sedes ad déxteram Patris, miserére nobis. Quóniam tu solus sanctus. Tu solus Dóminus. Tu solus Altíssimus, Jesu Christe. Cum Sancto Spíritu, in glória Dei Patris. Amen.

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Gloria: the music, typeset

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SAnctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dóminus Deus Sábaoth. Pleni sunt caeli et terra glória tua. Hosánna in excélsis. Benedíctus qui venit in nómine Dómini. Hosánna in excélsis.

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Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccáta mundi, miserére nobis. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccáta mundi, miserére nobis. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccáta mundi, dona nobis pacem.

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Ite, missa est. Deo grátias.

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Ite, missa est. Deo grátias.

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BEnedicámus Dómino. Deo grátias.

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Source

Collection
Nova Organi Harmonia ad Graduale Romanum
Book
Book I
Edition
Lemmens Institute, Mechelen: H. Dessain, 1942.
Citation

pp. 49–54

Rights
The page images and everything cut from them are in the public domain.
Sources and attributions

Source

Collection
Nova Organi Harmonia ad Graduale Romanum
Book
Book V
Edition
Lemmens Institute, Mechelen: H. Dessain, 1942.
Citation

pp. 11–17

Rights
The page images and everything cut from them are in the public domain.
Sources and attributions

All evenings of this occasion

Vespers

Pss. 109, 110, 111, 129, 131: I g, VII a, VII b, IV A*, VIII G · Magnificat: I g2 · Alma Redemptoris Mater · Magnificat antiphon Hódie

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Additional printed settings in Book VII. The Vespers page above keeps its own accompaniment.

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