December 23, 2007

O Antiphons, part VII

Today's antiphon is O Emmanuel.

Latin:
O Emmanuel,
rex et legifer noste
expectatio gentium
et Salvator earum:
veni ad salvandum nos,
Domine Deus noster.

English translation:
O Emmanuel,
the one awaited by the Gentiles
and their Savior:
come to save us,
Lord our God.
[from http://www.domcentral.org/life/23emmanu.htm]

English paraphrase from "O Come, O Come Emmanuel":
O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.
[Trans. John Neale, 1818-1866, altered.
From Worship, 3rd ed. Chicago: GIA Publications, 1998.]

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