7th Day of the 'O Antiphons' - 'O Emmanuel' or 'O God With Us'

Today is the 7th and final day of the short prayers known as the 'O Antiphons', today is 'O Emmanuel' or 'O God With Us'.  Truly through our faith in Christ as having coming into this world to show us the way to the Father, we genuinely have 'God With Us'.  But as I challenged you before, and as I challenge myself continually... do we honestly behave as though not only is 'God is With Us' but are 'We With God'?  Let us redouble our efforts to live a life which is 'Christ-Like' in as many ways as is humanly possible.  Let Christ into your heart and pray that he will employ you as one of his many agents in this world.  Praise God, for he is with us today!

In His Glory & Grace,
Roy

O Emmanuel (O God With Us)

Latin:

O Emmanuel, Rex et legifer noster,

exspectatio Gentium, et Salvator earum:

veni ad salvandum nos, Domine, Deus noster.

English:

O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver,

the hope of the nations and their Saviour:

Come and save us, O Lord our God.

To hear this prayer in Latin either cut & paste this link into your browser or highlight and right click 'go to'.

http://www.fisheaters.com/audio/emmanuel.mp3

Here are two more interesting notes about these 'O Antiphons'.

The first is not apparent in English, but it can be seen clearly in the official language of the Roman Catholic Church: Latin. The Latin versions of each of the titles of the Messiah are: Sapientia (Wisdom), Adonai (Lord), Radix (Root), Clavis (Key), Oriens (Dawn), Rex (King), and Emmanuel(Emmanuel).  Take the first letters of each of the titles, starting with the last and working back to the first. You spell: EROCRAS or "ero cras... I will be (there) tomorrow".

The song "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" is simply a reworking of the seven O Antiphons. When you sing it, you are joining yourself to a vast throng of Christians stretching back across centuries and spanning the whole of the earth who prayed as all Christians do, "Come, Lord Jesus!"

'Virgin & Child'
by: William Adolphe Bouguereau
My favorite rendition of the Christ Child, not because it is historically accurate, (this is certainly not a Jewish child) but because it is a baby with a face of authority that still looks like a child's face and not an adult face. A truly remarkable accomplishment by Bouguereau.