The Great “O” Antiphon for December 21st is O Clavis David (Key of David). This evocation from our joint Hebrew-Christian past is part of the 12th C. celebration of the last 7 days of Advent, The hymn for the occasion is Come, Thou Long-expected Jesus, sung by soloist Jared Haselbarth. The hymn was composed by Charles Wesley and is sung to the German-inspired tune, Stuttgart. You can access much of Mr. Haselbarth’s Christian music at http://www.nabaudio.com.
The Great “O” Antiphons seasonal video series offers not only stirring music, including a wonderful, evocative Celtic-inspired playing of O Come, O Come Emmanuel, but also graphic images from the rich artistic tradition of Christianity. Other episodes in the series are linked from the Digital Library page.
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The key phrase for Dec. 20th in the 12th C. observation, The Great “O” Antiphons, is O Radix Jesse, or Key of Jesse. It’s such a shame that the modern Church rarely uses these great teaching assets, but you can still enjoy and, hopefully, learn from them here.
The key word for December 19th is Adonai, the Hebrew word for Lord, for which the Latin and Greek equivalent is Kyrie. This is the second of seven presentations leading up to Christmas Eve based on the 12th C. celebration of the Roman Catholic Church augmented with pictures, music and Scripture readings. It was recorded in 2015 A.D.
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