O Virgo Virginum

The Sarum rite adds another Great O for Christmas Eve:

O Virgo virginum, quomodo fiet istud? Quia nec primam similem visa es nec habere sequentem.
Filiae Ierusalem, quid me admiramini? Divinum est mysterium hoc quod cernitis.

Virgin of Virgins, how shall this be? for neither before you was any like you, nor shall there be after: Daughters of Jerusalem, why marvel at me? the thing which you behold is a divine mystery.


And sometimes on Christmas Eve is sung the following responsory:

Judah and Jerusalem, fear not, nor be dismayed;
Tomorrow go you forth, and the Lord, He will be with you.
Stand still, and you shall see the salvation of the Lord.
Tomorrow go forth, and the Lord, He will be with you.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
Tomorrow go forth, and the Lord, He will be with you.


Gentle Readers, may each and every one of you have a most blessed Christmas!