Christmas Eve: Offertory Antiphon

Psalm 24:7

Lift up, O gates, your lintels;
reach up, you ancient portals,
that the King of glory may come in.
(Psalm 24:7)

Verse 1:

The Lord’s is the earth and its fullness,
the world, and those who dwell in it.
(Psalm 24:1)

Verse 2:

It is he who set it on the seas;
on the rivers he made it firm.
(Psalm 24:2)

Verse 3:

Who shall climb the mountain of the LorD?
Who shall stand in his holy place?
The clean of hands and pure of heart.
(Psalm 24:3-4a)

Verse 4:

Such are the people who seek him,
who seek the face of the God of Jacob.
(Psalm 24:6)

Verse 5:

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.
(Gloria Patri)