[Rank]
Secunda die infra Octavam S. Nativitatis Beatae Mariae Virginis;;Semiduplex;;2;;ex Sancti/09-08

[Rule]
ex Sancti/09-08;
9 lectiones
Doxology=Nat
No prima Vespera

[Lectio4]
From the Sermons of Saint Augustine Bishop (of Hippo)
!Serm. 18. on the Saints
Mary is happy, with joyful wonder at her own Motherhood, and her joy is that she is fruitful by the Holy Ghost. She is not alarmed to find herself an unwedded mother, but still is in joyful wonder at her Motherhood. Oh woman blessed above women, who doth nowise know a man, and yet compasseth a man in the womb. Mary compasseth a man by believing the Angel, since Eve lost a man by saying Yea to the serpent. Happy obedience, glorious grace! which yielded lowly belief, and embodied in her Him Who created the heavens. Hence she earned that glory which He afterward increased. Behold, saith she, from henceforth, all generations shall call me blessed.

[Lectio5]
Blessed Mary, who is able enough to thank and to praise thee, thou, who by once saying Be it unto me, hast arisen to help a lost world? What blessings shall weak man utter upon thee, thou, who, by thine own one treaty, hast given unto him to find the entrance into new life? Receive these far and random, these unworthy thanksgivings, and, since thou receivest our prayers, by thy prayers obtain pardon for our sins. Let our supplications come into thine hallowed presence, and give us in return the medicine for our healing.

[Lectio6]
If we ask through thee, make our request forgiven what we ask honestly, make obtainable. What we offer, do thou receive; what we pray for, do thou grant; what we fear, do thou get remitted for thou art the sinner's only hope. Through thee we hope for the remission of our sins; in thee, O thou most blessed! we look for reward. O Holy Mary, be thou an help to the helpless, a strength to the fearful, a comfort to the sorrowful; pray for the people, plead for the clergy, make intercession for all women vowed to God; may all that keep thine holy Birth-day feel the might of thine assistance. 

[Lectio7]
From the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
!Matt 1:1-17
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob. And so on.
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Homily by St. Jerome, Priest (at Bethlehem.)
!Bk. i. Comment, on Matthew.
And Jacob begat Joseph. This is one of the passages which the Emperor Julian (the Apostate) put forward against us as an instance of mutual contradiction between the Evangelists, for, whereas Matthew here saith that Jacob begat Joseph, Luke (iii. 23,) saith that Joseph was the son of Heli. Julian understood not the use of Scripture, and that the one was the father of Joseph by nature, and the other according to the Law. We know that Moses, by the command of God, ordained If brethren dwell together, and one of them die and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without, unto a stranger; her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. And it shall be, that the first-born which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel, (Deut. xxv. 5, 6.) Joseph, the husband of Mary. Let not this title of husband lead thee to form any thought of (completed) wedlock, but remember the use of Scripture to speak of Bridegroom and Bride as Husband and Wife

[Lectio8]
And from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations. Count from Jechonias to Joseph, and thou wilt find only thirteen generations. Christ therefore Himself is to be counted as the fourteenth generation. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. The careful reader will say Since Joseph was not the father of the Lord Saviour, what concern with the Lord hath Joseph's pedigree? To this we answer, first, that it is not the use of Scripture to give the pedigrees of women; and, secondly, that Joseph and Mary were of the same family, so that they were bound by the law to marry, and to be both enrolled at Bethlehem, as scions of one and the same stock.

[Commemoratio]
!Commemoratio S. Gorgonii Martyris
@Commune/C2:Oratio proper
$Oremus.
v. O Lord, may thine holy servant Gorgonius gladden us by his prayers, and make this his blessed Festival to be unto us indeed a day of rejoicing.
$Per Dominum