“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.
Available on YouTube at
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.
unless otherwise stated.
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:
Gentiles shall make their supplication:
come to deliver us, and tarry not.
“Rorate Cæli”.
Gregorian Chant for Advent.
Available on YouTube
Versicle. Rorate.
“Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant justium . . .”
“Ye Heavens, drop down from above,
and let the clouds rain down The Just One.”