Merry Christmas, this fourth day of Christmas 🎄. Today is also the Feast of the Holy Innocents, commemorating the innocent children massacred by Herod while trying to find baby Jesus and securing his own throne. Collect of the Day: O Almighty God, who out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast ordained strength, and … Continue reading Feast of the Holy Innocents (28 December)
The Feast of St. John, Apostle, Evangelist
Merry Christmas, this third day of Christmas 🎄. Today is also the Feast of Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist. Collect of the Day: Merciful Lord, we beseech thee to cast thy bright beams of light upon thy Church, that it being enlightened by the doctrine of thy blessed Apostle and Evangelist Saint John may so … Continue reading The Feast of St. John, Apostle, Evangelist
Solemn Morning Prayer for the Feast of St Stephen, commonly called Boxing Day
Merry Christmas! 🎄 With all in-person services suspended within the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, I’ve have once again had to return to Church at Home. Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of … Continue reading Solemn Morning Prayer for the Feast of St Stephen, commonly called Boxing Day
O Virgo virginum (O Virgin of Virgins)
The final Advent Antiphon (23 Dec) is O Virgo virginum (O Virgin of virgins). Christmas Eve is tomorrow! O Virgin of virgins, how shall this be? For neither before thee was any like thee, nor shall there be after. Daughters of Jerusalem, why marvel ye at me? The thing which ye behold is a divine … Continue reading O Virgo virginum (O Virgin of Virgins)
Second COVID Christmas 🦠
Christmas is already a stressful time of the year; gifts to buy, social gatherings, travel to see family, no one needed more stress or worry caused by the pandemic. Few would have thought that they would have to go through a second COVID Christmas. The proliferation and rapid spread of the Omicron variant has caught … Continue reading Second COVID Christmas 🦠
O Emmanuel
The Advent Antiphon of Today (22 Dec) is O Emmanuel. O Emmanuel, our King and our Lawgiver, the Desire of all nations, and their Salvation: Come and save us, O Lord our God. O Emmanuel, Rex et legifer noster, exspectatio Gentium, et Salvator earum: veni ad salvandum nos, Domine, Deus noster. From the English Hymnal
O Rex Gentium (O King of the Nations) 👑
The Advent Antiphon of today (21 Dec) is O Rex Gentium O King of the Nations, and their desire, the Corner-stone, who makest both one: Come and save mankind, which you formedst from clay. O Rex Gentium, et desideratus earum, lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum: veni, et salva hominem, quem de limo formasti. From … Continue reading O Rex Gentium (O King of the Nations) 👑
O Oriens (O Morning Star)
The Advent Antiphon of Today (20 Dec) is O Oriens (O Morning Star) 🌅 O Day-spring, Brightness of Light Everlasting, and Morning Star, Sun of Righteousness:Come and enlighten him that sitteth in darkness and the shadow of death. O Oriens, splendor lucis aeternae, et sol justitiae: veni, et illumina sedentes in tenebris, et umbra mortis. … Continue reading O Oriens (O Morning Star)
The Fourth Sunday in Advent 🕯🕯🕯🕯
The Cathedral of All Saints, Halifax, Nova Scotia on Advent 4 “Rejoice in the Lord alway, and again I say, Rejoice.” Collect: Raise up, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy power, and come among us, and with great might succour us; that whereas, through our sins and wickedness, we are sore let and hindered in … Continue reading The Fourth Sunday in Advent 🕯🕯🕯🕯
O Clavis David (O Key of David) 🗝
Today’s Advent Antiphon is O Clavis David (O Key of David) O Key of David, and Sceptre of the house of Israel; that openest, and no man shutteth, and shuttest, and no man openeth: Come and bring the prisoner out of the prison-house, and him that sitteth in darkness and the shadow of death. O … Continue reading O Clavis David (O Key of David) 🗝
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