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It doesn't work in the Sarum Use, of course, because there is an eighth
'O' antiphon...
John Briggs
PS Don't mention the Templars...
On 23/12/2011 13:59, Ms B M Cook wrote:
>
> Was the order of the Great O Antiphons dictated by something in the OT, decided upon by a person, or did it come about by tradition?
>
> I don't know who devised it, but it does contain a most wonderful bit of mediaeval word play.
>
> Just think:
> You have a whopping big folio on your lectern and all the "O" antiphons are lined up with BIG illuminated Initials.
>
> S apientia (Wisdom)
> A donai (Lord)
> R adix Jesse (The Offspring of Jesse)
> C lavis David (The Key - or Sceptre ? - of King David)
> O riens (The Dayspring from on High)
> R ex gentium (King of the Gentiles / Nations )
> E Emmanuel (God-with-us)
>
> You get to Christmas Eve and you LOOK BACK and read them off from RIGHT to LEFT
>
> E R O C R A S
>
> Ero cras
>
> "I will come tomorrow!" ie on Christmas Day.
>
> Was it deliberate or was it one of those seriously spooky coincidences ?
>
> When I first discovered this, it made the hair on my neck creep.
>
> It still make me twitch. I wonder how many more little things like this are lurking about unappreciated in liturgy, in scripture, in art .......?
>
> Merry Christmas everyone - May the Light shine out of the darkness for all of us.
>
> Brenda.
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