[Officium]
Feria IV Quattuor Temporum in Adventu

[Officium] (rubrica innovata)
Feria IV infra Hebdomadam III Adventus

[Lectio1]
Evangélium szent Lukács Evangélista kőnyvéből
!Luke 1:26-38
Azon időben Isten elküldte Gábor angyalt Galilea Názáret nevű városába egy szűzhöz, aki egy Dávid házából való férfinak, Józsefnek volt a jegyese, és Máriának hívták. És így tovább.
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Homily by St Ambrose, Bishop (of Milan,)
!Bk. ii. on Luke.
The mysteries of God are unsearchable, and it is especially declared by a Prophet, that a man can hardly know His counsels. (Wisd. ix. 13.) Nevertheless, some things have been revealed to us, and we may gather from some of the words and works of the Lord our Saviour, that there was a special purpose of God, in the fact that she who was chosen to be the mother of the Lord was espoused to a man. Why did not the power of the Highest overshadow her before she was so espoused? Perhaps it was lest any might blasphemously say that she had conceived in adultery the Holy One.