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Tag Archives: O antiphons
O Antiphons for Aleppo (or Halab)
The O antiphons begin on December 17, but first this poem by Richard Bott, naming so many more days, incarnate, cruciform. As of today – four years, four months, three weeks and four days. That’s how long the Battle of … Continue reading
Thursday, December 24 … O antiphon – Christmas Eve
O Emmanuel, who antiphons every time between the Star and a real umbilical cord, between ho-ho-ho and humbug, between our dreams for the perfect candlelight service, cantata, Christmas morning, and a corny NCIS holiday special. Come as our impossible hope, … Continue reading
December 23 — O antiphon … O Tannenbaum
Isaiah 41:19-25 I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together, so that all may see and know, all may consider … Continue reading
Tuesday, December 22, 2015 … O antiphon for the winter solstice
Come, O Darkness after the angels put out the stars, Come, baby who cried … to those who have left not just the church but even the mall-version of this holiday far behind. Come on the really slow polar local … Continue reading
Monday, December 21, 2015 … O antiphon for all the beasts
O Hen, Eagle, Lamb, Dove, Aslan, all of them are friendly beasts to you — the dogs I walk at the NHSPCA who long for a forever home, the kittens and old cats, and the cockatiels, hamsters, rats, the ferret … Continue reading
Sunday, December 20, 2015 … O antiphon for traveling mercies
O Hitchhiker on the highway where there will be singing, where sorrow and sighing flee away, come to wilderness that does not blossom, the dry lands that are not glad, and strengthen, like sweet prophecy, every weak hand, feeble knee, … Continue reading
Saturday, December 18, 2015 … O antiphon for those in recovery
O Come, one Dayspring at a time, to those with a white chip and the bronze of thirty years, together going forward into the drinking holidays Come and give us serenity. Come to the dual diagnosed, in the meeting room … Continue reading
Thursday, December 17, 2015 … O antiphon from Mexico
Joel Elí Padrón, México offers this prayer and Katie Fiegenbaum has written the translation. It is shared from Red Crearte. Come, Lord, we wait for you, we need you Come, because your world, our world weeps, has doubts, suffers from … Continue reading
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 … O pioid antiphon
Hark, the heroin epidemic sings, the sad song of dry mouth of heavy legs and short breath, the inability to decide. Hark the heroin epidemic brings death and loss on broken wings. Hark new herod private jails making it a … Continue reading
Tuesday, December 15, 2015 … O antiphon for Face Book
O God of the holy book and so many faces, come to the pastor with kids decorating her orthopedic boot, the woman who visits Dory, her bulldog with a tumor at Angell Memorial Hospital, the grandson thanked for setting up … Continue reading
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