most pure hands, be wrapped in swaddling-clothes, and laid in a manger.
Blessed art thou, my Lord Jesus Christ, who didst wish thy immaculate flesh to be circumcised, and thy name called Jesus, and also to be offered in the temple by thy Mother.
Blessed art thou, my Lord Jesus Christ, who caused thyself to be baptized in the Jordan, by thy servant John.
Blessed be thou, my Lord Jesus Christ, who didst preach with thy blessed lips the words of life to men ; and didst work many miracles personally before them.
Blessed be thou, my Lord Jesus Christ, who, fulfilling the Scriptures of the prophets, didst reasonably show thyself to the world to be true God.
Benediction and glory be to thee, my Lord Jesus Christ, who didst wonderfully fast for forty days in the desert, and didst permit thyself to be tempted by thy enemy the devil, whom thou didst drive off by a single word, when so it pleased thee.
Blessed be thou, my Lord Jesus Christ, who didst foretell thy death before the time, and in the last supper didst wonderfully consecrate thy precious body of material bread, and also charitably gave it to thy Apostles,
