A blessed Christmas to you

For all the prayers, comments, readers and friendships developed here between us and amongst us, I thank you. On this Holy Day Christmas and in this Holy Season of Christmastide, may we be blessed by Our Lord and forgiven for our sins against He who Is the Saviour of the World. God bless you.

Jesu, Redemptor Omnium

Jesus, the Ransomer of man, 

Who, ere created light began, 

Didst from the sovereign Father spring, 

His power and glory equalling. 

The Father’s Light and Splendor Thou, 

Their endless Hope to Thee that bow; 

Accept the prayers and praise to-day 

That through the world Thy servants pay. 

Salvation’s Author, call to mind 

How, taking form of humankind, 

Born of a Virgin undefiled, 

Thou in man’s flesh becam’st a Child. 

Thus testifies the present day, 

Through every year in long array, 

That Thou, salvation’s source alone, 

Proceededst from the Father’s throne. 

The heavens above, the rolling main 

And all that earth’s wide realms contain, 

With joyous voice now loudly sing 

The glory of their new-born King. 

And we who, by Thy precious Blood 

From sin redeemed, are marked for God, 

On this the day that saw Thy birth, 

Sing the new song of ransomed earth. 

O Lord, the Virgin-born, to Thee 

Eternal praise and glory be, 

Whom with the Father we adore 

And Holy Ghost forevermore. Amen