2 January to 5 January
SECOND SUNDAY OF CHRISTMAS & THE VIGIL OF THE EPIPHANY These Propers shall serve for the Second Sunday of Christmas, if there is one, and from 2 January up to and including the Vigil of the Epiphany.
Introit Dum medium (Wis 18:14-15; Ps 93:1) When as all the world was in profoundest quietness, and night was in the midst of her swift course: thine almighty Word, O Lord, leaped down from heaven out of thy royal throne. (Ps) The Lord is King and hath put on glorious apparel: the Lord hath put on his apparel, and girded himself with strength. GLORY. When as... On Sunday and on the Vigil of the Epiphany the Gloria is said.
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lmighty G od, who didst wonderfully create man in thine
own image, and didst yet more wonderfully restore him: grant, we beseech thee, that as thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ was made in the likeness of men, so we may be made partakers of the divine nature; through the same Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
Gradual Speciosus forma (Ps 45:2,1) Thou art fairer than the children of men: full of grace are thy lips. V. My heart is inditing of a good matter; I speak of the things which I made unto the King: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
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