Christmas Prayer

Christmas Prayer

Hail and blessed be the hour

and moment in which the 

Son of God was born 

of the most pure Virgin Mary, 

at midnight, in Bethlehem,

in piercing cold.

In that hour be gracious,

O my God!

and hear my prayer and grant my desires

through the merits of

Our Saviour Jesus Christ,

and of His Blessed Mother.

Amen

(It is previously believed that whoever recites the prayer about fifiteen times a day from the Feast of St. Andrew, November 30 until Christmas will obtain what is asked.)

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+Michael Augustine

Archbishop of New York

February 6, 1897