Christmas Mass during the Night - Christmas Proclamation

"The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to the flesh."
The traditional Christmas Proclamation, the Kalenda. From the Christmas Mass "during the Night" celebrated by Pope Francis in Saint Peter's Basilica, 24 December 2024.
Kalenda
25 December. The twenty-fourth day of the lunar month.
Innumerable ages having passed since the creation of the world, when in the beginning God created Heaven and earth and formed man in His own image;
Many centuries after the flood, when the Most High placed His rainbow in the heavens as a sign of the covenant and of peace;
from the migration of Abraham, our father in faith, from Ur of the Chaldees, twenty-one centuries;
from the exodus of the people of Israel out of Egypt, led by Moses, thirteen centureis;
from the anointing of David as King, about one thousand years;
in the sixty-fifth week according to the Daniel's prophecy ;
in the year of the one hundred and ninety-fourth Olympiad;
from the founding of the city of Rome seven hundred and fifty-two years;
in the the rule of Caesar Octavian Augustus, the forty-second year;
the whole world being at peace:
Jesus Christ, eternal God, the eternal Father's Son, being pleased by His coming to consecrate the world, by the Holy Spirit conceived, nine months having passed since His conception, in Bethlehem of Judah was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man.
THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO THE FLESH.