This was sung from the ambo at our midnight Mass. What is the sixth age of man? What were the first five? Is there a seventh?
**In the sixth age of the world, while the whole earth was at peace—
JESUS CHRIST eternal God and the Son of the eternal Father, willing to consecrate the world by His gracious coming, having been conceived of the Holy Ghost, and the nine months of His conception being now accomplished, (all kneel)
was born in Bethlehem of Judah of the Virgin Mary, made man. The birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to the flesh.**
I can't answer your question about the sixth age, but in looking at the sentence it looks like it refers to the time of Christ's birth. Maybe we are still in the sixth age?