The Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, the Precursor of the Lord, who, while still in his mother’s womb and filled with the Holy Spirit, leapt for joy at the coming of humanity’s salvation, and whose very birth foretold Christ the Lord; and so great a grace shone forth in him that the Lord himself declared that among those born of women there was none greater than John the Baptist.
June 24th
Saint Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
Latin Original
ollémnitas Nativitátis sancti Ioánnis Baptiste, Praecursóris Dómini, qui iam in ütero matris, Spíritu Sancto replétze, exsultávit gáudio ad humánze salátis advéntum cuiüsque ipsa natívitas Dóminum Christum prophetávit; et tanta grátia refülsit in eo, ut ipse Dóminus de illo díceret néminem maiórem inter natos mulíerum lIoáànne Baptísta.