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COMMONS
II. In Advent
Entrance Antiphon Cf. Is 45: 8
Drop down dew from above, you heavens,
and let the clouds rain down the Just One;
let the earth be opened and bring forth a Savior.
Or: Cf. Lk 1: 30-32
The angel said to Mary: You have found favor with God.
Behold, you will conceive and bear a son,
and he will be called Son of the Most High.
Collect
O God, who willed that at the message of an Angel
your Word should take flesh
in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
grant that we, who pray to you
and believe her to be truly the Mother of God,
may be helped by her interceding before you.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Or:
Entrance Antiphon
In childbirth she brought forth the King, whose name is eternal.
She keeps a mothers joy with a virgins honor.
None like her was seen before, and none thereafter.
Or: