[Missa]
Rorate coeli (in Adventu)

[Comment]
# I Mass of the B. V. M. – Rorate
! Advent


[Introitus]
!Isa 45:8
v. Drop down dew, you heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just: let the earth be opened and bud forth a Saviour.
!Ps 84:2
You have favored, O Lord, Your land; You have restored the well-being of Jacob.
&Gloria
v. Drop down dew, you heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just: let the earth be opened and bud forth a Saviour.

[Graduale]
!Ps 23:7, 3-4.
Lift up, O gates, your lintels; reach up, you ancient portals, that the King of glory may come in!
V. Who can ascend the mountain of the Lord? or who may stand in His holy place? He whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean. Alleluia, alleluia.
!Luke 1:28
Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women. Alleluia.

[Secreta]
Fix firmly in our minds, O Lord, we beseech You, the mysteries of the true faith; that we who believe Him, conceived of a virgin, to be true God and man, may be found worthy to attain eternal happiness through the power of His redeeming resurrection.
$Per eundem

[Communio]
!Isa 7:14
Behold, a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and His name shall be called Emmanuel.

[Postcommunio]
Pour forth, we beseech You, O Lord, Your grace into our hearts, that we, to whom the incarnation of Christ Your Son was made known by the message of an angel, may, by His passion and cross, be brought to the glory of His resurrection.
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