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John Briggs wrote:
> Cormack, Margaret Jean wrote:
> >
> > Dear John,
> > Could you remind us what 'O Sapientia' is all about?
> > Meg
>
> "O Sapientia" is the first of the Christmas "O"
> Antiphons. "O Sapientia" is on 16 December in the Sarum
> Calendar, but on 17 December in other calendars. (I shall
> have to do some digging to establish the precise
> situation at York!)
To clarify further: the seven "O" antiphons are daily Magnificat antiphons
for 17th to 23rd December and they are:
O Sapientia
O Adonay
O Radix Jesse
O Clavis David
O Oriens splendor
O Rex gentium
O Emmanuel
Sarum (and York, and Hereford) add "O virgo virginum" on 23rd December, and
so start the sequence a day earlier, on 16th December.
Both York and Sarum (I haven't checked Hereford) have a 9th "O" antiphon ("O
Thoma didime") for the feast of Thomas the Apostle on 21st December. The
Sarum Breviary doesn't fully explain how this is fitted in, as it definitely
specifies "O Thoma didime" as the Magnificat antiphon for both First and
Second Vespers, whereas the York Breviary says that for First Vespers on
20th December "O Thoma didime" is the Magnificat antiphon, with "O Oriens
splendor" as an additional antiphon. For Second Vespers on 21st December,
"Quia vidisti me, Thoma" is the Magnificat antiphon and "O Rex gentium" the
additional antiphon.
John Briggs
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