The Great O Antiphons. 19 December.

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

"Madonna and Child",

by Michelangelo.

Brügge Cathedral, "Onze-Lieve-Vrouwkerk", Belgium.

Photo: 7 February 2005.

Author: Elke Wetzig (elya)

(Wikimedia Commons)

"O Radix Jesse".

The Great O Antiphon

for 19 December.

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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.

Versicle. Rorate.

"Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant justium . . ."

"Ye Heavens, drop down from above,

and let the clouds rain down The Just One."