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What Carries?
This sonnet is based on Mark 2:1-12 which tells of a paralytic who is carried by his friends to a house where Jesus is speaking so that Jesus may heal him. When they find that they can’t get close enough to Jesus, they dig a hole in the roof of…
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To His Garden
This sonnet is based on Jeremiah 39:1-10 which recounts the fall of Jerusalem. The account itself strikingly echoes the fall in Genesis. In both cases because of sin and rebellion, God’s people are cast from a garden. Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden and Zedekiah and the people…
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O Rex Gentium
The Antiphon for December 22 is O Rex Gentium or O King of Nations. The antiphon’s text reads, O King of the nations, and their desire, the cornerstone making both one: Come and save the human race, which you fashioned from clay. It draws its text from several passages in…
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O Oriens
December 21st marks the winter solstice and the accompanying antiphon is appropriately, O Oriens or O Dayspring. The antiphon reads, O Dayspring splendor of light eternal and sun of righteousness: come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death. The prayer finds its inspiration in several…
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O Clavis II
The Great O Antiphon for December 20 is O Clavis. The text of which reads, O Key of David and sceptre of the House of Israel; you open and no one can shut; you shut and no one can open: Come and lead the prisoners from the prison house, those…
