You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger.

Christmas prayer

We praise you, Lord Jesus Christ,

God-Saviour of men,

stupendously powerful with the Father;

we praise you, we invoke you, we pray to you; assist us with your pardon, with clemency give us your grace.

Awaken in our hearts desires deserving of fulfillment; suggest to us words that are worthy to be heard; grant that our actions may be worthy of blessing.

We beg you to renew your birth in human nature, penetrating us with your invisible Godhead

as you did in a unique way in Mary

and do now spiritually in the Church.

May you be conceived by our faith,

that a mind untouched by corruption may bring you forth, that the soul, ever confirmed by the power of the Most High, may offer you a dwelling place.

Be not born in us, but reveal yourself in us. Be truly for us the Emmanuel, God with us.

Deign to remain with us, to fight for us. Only so can we conquer.

Mozarabic liturgy