Download MP3 Download PDF “Glory sing the cherubs in the fields of Bethlehem…” You are not only the joy of Israel and of all mankind; you are also the joy of the angels, our friends in heaven. How you must have rejoiced, beloved angels, when you recognised in God’s light His immense Wisdom in choosing […]
Download MP3 Download PDF Now you are here, Divine Child! What moved You to come to us, to such a hostile world? The reason can only lie in Your immeasurable love for our Heavenly Father, and in Your infinite love for us men. Who can understand it? I simply believe it and I can perceive
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Download PDF How long the Israelites waited for the Messiah! Then, when he came and the promises began to be fulfilled, they did not recognise him. What a tragedy! Now the believing Jews are still waiting for him… They are also waiting for the coming of the Prophet Elijah, who is to precede the Messiah.
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Download PDF O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver, the hope of the nations and their Saviour: Come and save us, O Lord our God. O Emmanuel, King and Master all that you say and do serves as instruction and for our salvation. You teach us the right way (Mt 22:16); You reveal to us
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Download PDF O King of the nations, and their desire, the cornerstone making both one: Come and save the human race, which you fashioned from clay. All peoples are waiting for you, O King of nations. Deep down they know it: There must be the One who truly loves us; There must be the One
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Download PDF O Morning Star, splendour of light eternal and sun of righteousness: Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death. When Thou, O Sun of righteousness, arisest, thus diffusing the uncreated light, You pierce through all darkness and everywhere comes life, true life. There is nothing that can dim
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Download PDF O Key of David and Sceptre of the house of Israel, Who dost open and no man doth shut, Who dost shut and no man doth open, come and bring forth from his prisonhouse the captive that sitteth in darkness and in the shadow of death. “All power in heaven and on earth
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O Root of Jesse, standing as a sign among the peoples; before you kings will shut their mouths, to you the nations will make their prayer: Come and deliver us, and delay no longer. In many parts of the world, O Lord, Your sign is raised up: the sign of the Cross. Exalted in it,
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Download PDF O Adonai, and Leader of the house of Israel, Who didst appear to Moses in the flame of the burning bush, and didst give unto him the Law on Sinai: come and with an outstretched arm redeem us. O Adonai, Father of life! You never forsook man, even when he turned his back
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Download PDF O Wisdom, coming forth from the mouth of the Most High, reaching from one end to the other, mightily and sweetly ordering all things: Come and teach us the way of prudence. You, O Wisdom, bring everything into holy order, for You come from the Eternal Father. Thou dost penetrate all things and,
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