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Showing posts with label O antiphons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label O antiphons. Show all posts
Monday, December 18, 2023

Advent responsory: Bethlehem, the city of the most high God

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Today's O antiphon is O Adonai. And for a responsory, I want to take a brief look at Bethlehem civitas Dei , the second responsory for t...
Friday, December 23, 2016

The Great O's : O Emmanuel (December 23)

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The Annunciation, by Jacopo Torriti, Santa Maria Maggiore. At Lauds today, the Benedictus antiphon is of the date rather than the ...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

The Great Os: O Rex gentium (December 22)

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Today's O antiphon is O Rex Gentium: O King of the Gentiles, yea, and Desire thereof, O Cornerstone that makest of twain one; come...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

The Great O's: O Oriens (December 21)

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Today's O antiphon, O Oriens, is sung as part of the commemoration of the feria: O Day-Spring, brightness of the everlasting Ligh...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

The Great O's: O clavis David (December 20)

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O Key of David, and Sceptre of the house of Israel that openest, and no man shutteth; and shuttest and no man openeth; come to bring ou...
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Monday, December 19, 2016

The Great O's: O Radix Iesse (December 19)

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Today's O antiphon is O root of Jesse, a reference to the famous concept of the 'Jesse tree' that traces the ancestry of Jesu...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

The Great O's: O Adonai (December 18)

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Moses receives the law, c840 Today's O antiphon is O Adonai (Lord): O Adonai, and leader of the House of Israel, who appeared t...
Friday, December 16, 2016

The Great Os: December 17 and wisdom

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St Hildegarde Scivias manuscript: Wisdom From Saturday this week (December 17) the liturgy intensifies, with all days being Class II...
Monday, December 12, 2016

Truly I will come: The Great O's

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The liturgy is becoming more intense in the lead up to Christmas.  This Sunday at Matins the invitatory antiphon has become 'The Lord...