January 1st is dedicated to Mary under her title of "Mother of God", but it is also the Octave Day of Christmas—the same "notes" of Christmas Day, harmonizing in a different key.
The last major section of the homily (starting at 11m 45s) may benefit from a visual aid to go along with the audio. [Click here to listen]
The usual layout of this section (in English and Latin) is as 3 couplets:
You take away the sins of the world · Have mercy on us A·B
You take away the sins of the world · Receive our prayer A·C
You are seated at the right hand of the Father · Have mercy on us D·B
But if you include the next part, the three "you alone are..." and read it as a 3x3 (like the Kyrie always was for over a thousand years, both East and West), you get something else:
You take away the sins... · Have mercy on us · You take away the sins...
Receive our prayer · You are seated at the right hand... · Have mercy on us
You alone are holy one · You alone are the Lord · You alone are the most high
And this is how the Greek versions of the text lay out those first six phrases too: as 2 sets of 3, not 3 pairs of 2. (Though, admittedly the Greek text has only the first two "alone" titles— holy one and Lord.)
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