The Great O Antiphons. 19 December.

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

Madonna and Child.

Artist: Marianne Stokes (1855 - 1927),

Date: 1907 - 1908.

Current location: Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum.

Source/Photographer: Own work, user:Rlbberlin

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19 December: Isaias xi. 10.

O Radix Jesse,

qui stas in signum populorum,

super quem continebunt reges os suum,

quem Gentes deprecabuntur:

veni ad liberandum nos,

jam noli tardare.

O Root of Jesse,

who standest for an ensign of the people,

before whom kings shall keep silence,

and unto whom the Gentiles shall make their supplication:

come to deliver us, 

and tarry not.

V. Rorate.

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