As we approach Christmas, the news around us is nothing but war and terror. Tel Aviv jews have demonstrated to remove arabs and non-jews from the city; jewish youth gangs on the rampage attacking arabs in Jerusalem. Hatred and racism spreading like wild fire throughout the country. http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/upsurge-in-racism-as-protesters-take-to-the-streets-against-arabs-migrant-workers-1.331899
Earthquake in Indonesia, then another huge one in Japan. Freak snow storms in Europe. Drought in the Middle East. What a way to end 2010.
Yesterday's O Antiphon was "O Oriens" (O Rising Sun)
Latin:
- O Oriens,
- splendor lucis aeternae, et sol justitiae:
- veni, et illumina sedentes in tenebris, et umbra mortis.
- O Morning Star,
- splendour of light eternal and sun of righteousness:
- Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death.
Isaiah had prophesied:
- "The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness—on them light has shined." Isaiah 9:2
And today's antiphon is "O Rex Gentium" (O King of the Nations)
Latin:
- O Rex Gentium, et desideratus earum,
- lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum:
- veni, et salva hominem,
- quem de limo formasti.
- O King of the nations, and their desire,
- the cornerstone making both one:
- Come and save the human race,
- which you fashioned from clay.
- "For a child has been born for us, a son given us; authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is named Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." Isaiah 9:6
- "He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore." Isaiah 2:4
May Christ our rising sun of justice come to rule the world as King, to remove all the hatred and war. Come, Prince of Peace.
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