are those ancient antiphons used before and after the Magnificat which begin with the letter O. We give those for Dec. 16-. 23 as they stand in many ancient and some modern rituals: .<\/p>\n
“Dec. 16.-O Sapientia! .O Wisdom! which comest forth out of the mouth of the Most High, and reachest from one end to the other, mightily and sweetly ordering all things; come and teach us the way of prudence.<\/p>\n
“Dee. 17.-O Adonai! O Lord and Ruler of the House of Israel! who appearedst unto Moses in a flame of fire in the bush, and gavest unto him the law in Sinai; come and redeem us wit a stretched-out arm.<\/p>\n
” Dec. 18.-O Radix Jesse! O Root of Jesse! who standest for an. ensign of the people, at whom kings shall shut their mouths, unto whom .the Gentiles shall pray; come and deliver us, and tarry not.<\/p>\n
“Dec. 19.-O Clavis David I ‘ 0 Key of David and. Sceptre of the House of Israel ! thou that openest and no man shutteth, and shuttest and no man openeth; come and loose the prisoner from the. prison house, and him that sitteth in darkness from the shadow of death.<\/p>\n
“Dec. 20.-O Orien !’ 0 Orient, Brightness of the Eternal Light and Sun of Righteousness . come. and lighten them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. “Dec. 21.-O Rex Gentium! O King of the Gentiles aid’ their Desire, the Corner-stone! who madest both one; come and save man, whom thou hast made out of the, dust of the earth.<\/p>\n
“Dec. 22.-O .Emnlmaueel! O Emmanuel, our King and Lawgiver! the Desire of all nations and their Savior; come and save us, O Lord our God.<\/p>\n
“Dec. 23.-O Virgo Virgium! O Virgin of Virgins ! how. shall this be? for neither before thee was any like thee,. nor shall there be after. Daughters of Jerusalem, why marvel ye at me? the thing which ye behold was a divine: mystery.”<\/p>\n
Advent Antiphons are those ancient antiphons used before and after the Magnificat which begin with the letter O. We give those for Dec. 16-. 23 as they stand in many ancient and some modern rituals: . “Dec. 16.-O Sapientia! .O Wisdom! which comest forth out of the mouth of the Most High, and reachest from … Continue reading “Advent Antiphons”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}