Non excédit fidem, quod homo exívit de vírgine, quando petra fontem prófluum scaturívit, ferrum super aquas natávit, ambulávit homo super aquas.  Ergo si hóminem unda portávit, non pótuit hóminem virgo generáre, atque hóminem, de quo légimus : Et mittet illis Dóminus hóminem, qui salvos fáciet eos et notus erit Dóminus Ægyptiis?  In véteri ítaque Testaménto virgo Hebræórum per mare duxit exércitum : in novo Testaménto Virgo, géneris aula cæléstis, elécta est ad salútem.

It is not beyond belief that a man should come forth from a virgin, when the stony rock gushed out with water; when the iron did swim ; and when a man did walk upon the waters.  If the sea could bear a man upon the breast of its waves, a virgin could bear a man in her womb.  And that Man was he of whom we read : It shall be for a sign ; the Lord shall send them a Man, and he shall deliver them, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day.  In the Old Testament, a virgin led the army of the Hebrews through the sea.  But in the New Testament, a Virgin hath been set apart unto our salvation, and is become a temple of a new race born from above.

V.  Tu autem, Dómine, miserére nobis.
R.  Deo grátias.

V.  But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R.  Thanks be to God.