Agreed Calendar City Council Meeting December 16, 2020
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Christians have celebrated Christmas in the United States since our Nation's founding; and
WHEREAS, The Solemnity ofthe Nativity ofthe Lord for Roman Martyrology draws upon Scripture to declare in a formal way the birth of Christ; and
WHEREAS, The Solemnity ofthe Nativity ofthe Lord states:
The Twenty-fifth Day of December,
when ages beyond number had run their course
from the creation ofthe world;
when God in the beginning created heaven and earth,
and formed man in his own likeness; and,
when century upon century had passed since
the Almighty set his bow in the clouds after the Great Flood,
as a sign of covenant and peace;
in the twenty-first century since Abraham, our father in faith, came out of Ur of the Chaldees;
in the thirteenth century since the People of Israel were led by Moses in the Exodus from Egypt;
around the thousandth year since David was anointed King; in the sixty-fifth week of the prophecy of Daniel; in the one hundred and ninety-fourth Olympiad; in the year seven hundred and fifty-two since the foundation of the City of Rome;
in the forty-second year of the reign of Caesar Octavian Augustus,
the whole world being at peace,
Jesus Christ, eternal God and Son of the eternal Father
desiring to consecrate the world by his most loving presence,
was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
and when nine months had passed since his conception,
was born of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem of Judah
and was made man:
The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ according to the flesh; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED, that we, the Members of the City Council ofthe City of Chicago, hereby recognize and respect the importance of the Nativity of Lord Jesus to the thousands of Chicagoans with shared Christian belief and faith; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Clerk is directed to make a signed digital copy of this resolution available to any Chicago resident wishing to recite the Solemnity o...
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