The Great O Antiphons. 21 December.

English: “Madonna And Child With Two Angels”.

Deutsch: Madonna und zwei Engel.

Italiano: Madonna con due angeli.

Artist: Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510).

Date: 1468 - 1469.

Current location: Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte

Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project:

10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.

DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202.

Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

Permission: [1]

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“O Oriens”.

The Great O Antiphon for 21 December.

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

21 December: Psalm cvi. 10

O Oriens,

splendor lucis æternæ,

et sol justitiæ;

veni et illumina sedentes in tenebris,

et umbra mortis.

O Dawn of The East,

brightness of The Light Eternal,

and Sun of Justice;

come and enlighten them that sit in darkness,

and in the shadow of death.

Versicle. Rorate.

“Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant justium . . .”

“Ye Heavens, drop down from above,

and let the clouds rain down The Just One”.

“Rorate Caeli”.

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