{"id":29840,"date":"2013-12-23T21:37:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T01:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=29840"},"modified":"2013-12-23T23:39:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T03:39:07","slug":"o-emmanuel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/o-emmanuel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"O Emmanuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>O EMMANUEL [God with us], our King and Lawgiver, the Expected of nations and their Savior: COME,and save us, O Lord our God!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The following commentary adapted from\u00a0<em>The Church\u2019s Year of Grace<\/em>, Fr Pius Parsch (The Liturgical Press, Collegeville, 1959):<\/p>\n<p>In the previous six antiphons, our cry was directed to the Messiah as He manifested Himself to the Chosen People, to the Gentiles, and in nature; now He is addressed in person and asked to remain with us as Emmanuel. Reading this final antiphon gives the feeling that a climax has indeed come. The very term Emmanuel [God with us] reveals the kindly, human heart of Jesus&#8211;He wants to be one of us, a Child of Man, with all our human weaknesses and suffering; He wants to experience how hard it is to be human. He wants to remain with us to the end of time; He wants to dwell within us, to make us sharers of His nature.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the main title, the Savior is invoked by four other names.<\/p>\n<p>(1) King and Lawgiver are common enough, and the combination is found in Isaiah 32:22: &#8220;The Lord is our Judge, the Lord is our Lawgiver; the Lord is our King. He will save us.&#8221; This is a joyous expression of faith and confidence. Christ functions in all these roles for our benefit. Whatever a lawgiver like Moses, a judge like Samuel, a king like David, accomplished for the good and glory of their people, that and far more the expected Savior will accomplish for us.<\/p>\n<p>(2) The Messiah is next hailed as the expectation of the Gentiles and their Savior. Remember Jacob&#8217;s dying words: &#8220;The scepter will not pass from Judah, nor a ruler from his thigh, till He comes that is to be sent. He is the expectation of all the nations.&#8221; (Genesis 49:10)<\/p>\n<p>The antiphon petitions: COME AND SAVE US! King, let me be Your vassal; Lawgiver, let me be Your servant; Expected Savior, let my longings be fulfilled in You. Our song closes with the words, &#8220;O Lord our God!&#8221; It is a phrase summarizing all the names and titles used in the O-Antiphons. May our hearts be always so disposed as to use the invocations sincerely and confidently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O EMMANUEL [God with us], our King and Lawgiver, the Expected of nations and their Savior: COME,and save us, O Lord our God! The following commentary adapted from\u00a0The Church\u2019s Year of Grace, Fr Pius Parsch (The Liturgical Press, Collegeville, 1959): In the previous six antiphons, our cry was directed to the Messiah as He manifested &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/o-emmanuel-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">O Emmanuel<\/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\/29840"}],"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=29840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29841,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29840\/revisions\/29841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}