The Great “O” Antiphons were sung before and after
the Psalm at Vespers during the last seven days of Advent. They were used to create the hymn “O Come, O
Come, Emmanuel,” which is the Hymn of the Day for the Fourth Sunday in Advent:
Rorate Coeli. The “O” Antiphon for December 17 is:
O Wisdom, proceeding from the
mouth of the most high, pervading and permeating
all creation, mightily ordering
all things:
Come and teach us the way of prudence.
Two corrections: the O Antiphons are Magnificat antiphons, not Psalm antiphons (Vespers has three Psalms in the modern rite, and the old rite had five); and they ARE still sung at Vespers (not were)—liturgical folk who pray the Offices have never given them up!
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