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It’s Christmas Eve but not Christmas yet. Today is the 4th Sunday of Advent. The fourth candle on the wreath represents the Virgin Mary. We first keep today as Sunday because the Church always remembers Christ’s resurrection on the first day of the week. What happened at Easter is even more important than Christmas. We […]

O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver, the hope of the nations and their Saviour: Come and save us, O Lord our God. Today’s O Antiphon, the last of the series,  is heard before the Gospel at Mass and bookending the Magnificat during Evening Prayer.

O King of the nations, and their desire, the cornerstone making both one: Come and save the human race, which you fashioned from clay. Today’s O Antiphon is heard before the Gospel at Mass and bookending the Magnificat during Evening Prayer.

O King of the nations, and their desire, the cornerstone making both one: Come and save the human race, which you fashioned from clay. Today’s O Antiphon is heard before the Gospel at Mass and bookending the Magnificat during Evening Prayer.

Today Thursday 21 December is Old St Thomas Day. This is Thomas the Apostle or Doubting Thomas who at first could not believe that the crucified Christ was alive. So, although we now keep St Thomas Day is July, today is a reminder of the later years of the Christ Child. Some Anglican churches still […]

Today Wednesday 20 December is the fourth day of the O Antiphons: O Key of David. 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 who dwell in darkness […]

Today Tuesday 19 December is the third day of the O Antiphons: 0 Radix Jesse. Hear the words from Isaiah before today’s Gospel at Mass and before and after the Magnificat at Evening Prayer.

Today Tuesday 19 December is the third day of the O Antiphons: 0 Radix Jesse. Hear the words from Isaiah before today’s Gospel at Mass and before and after the Magnificat at Evening Prayer.

O Adonai is today’s O Antiphon heard before the Gospel reading at Mass and the Magnificat at Evening Prayer. From now until 22 December there will be an O Antiphon as the Messiah is daily called by an Old Testament title. Today 18 December is known as the Expectation of Mary, or Our Lady of […]

O Adonai is today’s O Antiphon heard before the Gospel reading at Mass and the Magnificat at Evening Prayer. From now until 22 December there will be an O Antiphon as the Messiah is daily called by an Old Testament title. Today 18 December is known as the Expectation of Mary, or Our Lady of […]