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Podcast: Contemplative at Home
Episode: Finding Your O Antiphon: An Advent Meditation
Description: A 15-minute guided meditation for Advent.
The Antiphons are short chants which appear throughout Christian liturgy, and feature in Ambrosian chant and Gregorian chant. The O Antiphons are sung in the final seven days before Christmas. Each short verse – one per day – calls on the Lord by a specific name (O Wisdom, O Adonai, O Key of David..), describes God’s character and attributes, and calls on the Lord to come and bring a gift anew. The modern version of these verses is the hymn O Come O Come Emmanuel.
There are many beautiful recordings of the...