The Scriptural Rosary, Part 3: The Nativity

A Scriptural Rosary
The Most Holy Rosary: Uniting the Old and New Testament through prayer, Sacred Scriptures, and art. Don't quite remember how to pray the Rosary? Read this first... Then use the scriptures below to augment your prayers as indicated.
The Third Joyful Mystery: The Nativity
*Prophetic Trumpet*	All the prophets, from Samuel and afterwards, who have spoken, have told of these days. Acts of the Apostles 3:24
	Our Father...
	For behold the day shall come ... Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will perform the good word that I have spoken to the house of Israel, and to the house of Juda. Malachias 4:1, Jeremias 33:14
	Hail Mary...

For the Lord has rendered the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel ... And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and they shall be my people, and I will dwell in the midst of thee. ... Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people. Nahum 2:2, Habacuc 3:13
Hail Mary...
For the day of the Lord is at hand upon all nations ... In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David, that is fallen. Abdias 0:15, Zacharias 2:11, Amos 9:11
Hail Mary...
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel. ... For behold the Lord will come forth out of his place: and he will come down, and will tread upon the high places of the earth. Isaias 7:14, Micheas 1:3
Hail Mary...
And I will hide my face no more from them, for I have poured out my spirit upon all the house of Israel, saith the Lord God. ... The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and exceeding swift. Ezechiel 39:29, Sophonias 1:14
Hail Mary...
I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts. The word that I covenanted with you when you came out of the land of Egypt. ... Let there be a trumpet in thy throat like an eagle upon the house of the Lord. Aggeus 2:5-6, Osee 8:1
Hail Mary...
Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity ... Sing praise to the Lord ... with long trumpets, and sound of coronet. Make a joyful noise before the Lord our king. Psalms 80:4, Psalms 97:5-6
Hail Mary...
For a child is born to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace. Isaias 9:6
Hail Mary...
Blow ye the trumpet in Sion, sound an alarm in my holy mountain, let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: because the day of the Lord cometh. ... And it shall come to pass, that in that day a noise shall be made with a great trumpet ... they shall adore the Lord in the holy mount in Jerusalem. Joel 2:1, Isaias 27:13
Hail Mary...
And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, in the house of David his servant: As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who are from the beginning. Luke 1:69-70
Hail Mary... Glory Be... O My Jesus...

Scripture verses from The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version (Challoner Revision)
Sponsored by Suffering Servant Scriptorium
(c) Christine Haapala, 1996, 2001, 2002

Christine Haapala is also the author of:

Speak, Lord, I am Listening (Children's Scriptural Rosary)
His Sorrowful Passion (Scriptural Chaplet of Divine Mercy)
The Suffering Servant's Courage
From Genesis to Revelation: Seven Scriptural Rosaries, and
The Sanctity of Life Scriptural Rosary (recorded on CD/cassette)

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