Thursday, December 21, 2006 AD
21st December: O Oriens
O Morning Star,splendour of light eternal and sun of righteousness:
Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness
and the shadow of death.
- cf. Malachi 4.2
O come, Thou Day-spring, come and cheer
Our spirits by Thine advent here;
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
And death’s dark shadows put to flight.
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.
Labels: advent, o-antiphons, turvey abbey
