The Great O Antiphons. 18 December.

Text and Illustrations taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, unless otherwise stated.

English: Christ is born.

Deutsch: Christi Geburt.

Artist: Lorenzo Lotto (1480–1556).

Date: 1523.

Current location: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. 

ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

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18 December: Exodus iii. 2, xx. 1.

O Adonai,

et dux domus Israel,

qui Moysi in igne flammae rubi apparuisti,

et ei in Sina legem dedisti:

veni ad redimentum nos in brachio extento.

O Adonai,

and Leader of the House of Israel,

who didst appear to Moses in the flame of 

      the burning bush,

and didst give unto him the Law on Sinai:

come and with an outstretched arm redeem us.

V. Rorate.

"Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant justium . . ."
"Ye heavens, drop down from above, and let the clouds rain down the Just One."