Nativity Proclamation
  • ChurchMusician
    Posts: 10
    We might be including this before the beginning of Christmas Mass during the Night, using the text from the appendix of the Roman Missal. I don't see anything in the GIRM regarding who would recite or chant this, or from where it is proclaimed. I assume a deacon, lector, reader, or cantor could proclaim it but not from the ambo. Are there any rubrics in other liturgical books?
  • a_f_hawkins
    Posts: 3,467
    There is a video of the 2018 papal mass in St Peter's here. The proclamation, by a cantor from ¿the ambo? starts around the fourth minute. It is followed by unveiling and incensing of the image of the Christ Child.
    https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/events/event.dir.html/content/vaticanevents/en/2018/12/24/messa-natale2018.html
  • Richard MixRichard Mix
    Posts: 2,798
    We've long done it before Adeste and at the end of a half-hour choral prelude, antiphonally with two cantors. Some day I'll have to ask about having it follow the procession and at the ambo, though.
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