{"id":27343,"date":"2012-12-17T16:21:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T20:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/12\/the-o-antiphons-the-churchs-pr\/"},"modified":"2012-12-17T16:21:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T20:21:50","slug":"the-o-antiphons-the-churchs-pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/12\/the-o-antiphons-the-churchs-pr\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greater Antiphons, the Church’s prophetic utterances…"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\"Antiphons<\/a><\/span>The tradition of the “O Antiphons” is now upon us. We will hear them beginning tonight at Vespers.<\/span><\/p>\n


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ERO CRAS is a convenient nemonic device, meaning, “tomorrow, I will come.”
<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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During the 8 days before Christmas, the Church has collected, one for each
\nnight, a biblical verse from the Advent Prophets Isaiah and Micah (that is, an “antiphon”)
\nthat is known to be prophetic of the birth of Jesus; each notes a title of the
\nMessiah. Each offers us a key to understand the gift of the Messiah promised through the use of typology.<\/span><\/div>\n

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The Octave of Advent begins on December 17th and concludes on the 23rd.
\nSeven different antiphons are traditionally sung prior to and following the
\nMagnificat during Vespers as part of the Divine Office (the Liturgy of the
\nHours). The eighth day of the octave is Christmas Eve, so Vespers for that
\nevening is the Christmas Vigil. Each antiphon begins with the word, “O” in the
\nincipit. Hence, “O Antiphons<\/a>.” 
\n<\/span>Most of us are familiar with the Advent hymn, “O Come, O Come,
\nEmmanuel,” the content of which the O Antiphons form the structure Vespers at
\nthis time of the liturgical year.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Church always distinguishes what she
\nsays and since in our theology we derive our belief from the manner in which we
\npray, the O Antiphons give ample food for what we belief the Messiah to be, who
\nhe is. Secularism gives the world an emasculated Santa Claus but the Church
\ngives us a Messiah. He is known through his titles, that is, his activities. In
\nthe final stretch before Christmas use this time to pray with the O Antiphons:
\nthey provide a beautiful framework for reflection before the Nativity.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

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Past Communio blog entries here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tradition of the “O Antiphons” is now upon us. We will hear them beginning tonight at Vespers. ERO CRAS is a convenient nemonic device, meaning, “tomorrow, I will come.” During the 8 days before Christmas, the Church has collected, one for each night, a biblical verse from the Advent Prophets Isaiah and Micah (that is, … Continue reading The Greater Antiphons, the Church’s prophetic utterances…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1827,2261],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}