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Vergente mundi vespere,
Uti sponsus de thalamo,
Egressus honestissima
Virginis matris clausula.
The coming of Christ our Lord is an end and a beginning: an end to the world of waiting, of the promise that is to be fulfilled; a beginning of the world of the new creation that springs from his birth in human flesh.
It is at Vespers, at the evening prayer of the Church, that his coming is solemnly commemorated on the seven days before Christmas. Each evening he is named and praised and invoked in the Magnificat antiphon, gracing the words of his Mother, ‘My soul magnifies the Lord; my spirit has found joy in God, who is my Saviour’.
O Sapientia. The first evening names our Lord as Wisdom, ‘coming forth from the mouth of the Most High, reaching from one end to another, ordering all things mightily and with sweetness: come to teach us the way of prudence. The pattern for each of the seven antiphons is the same: the naming of the Lord who is to come, the expansion of that name and then the supplication.
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1 ‘When the evening of the world was drawing on, as a bridegroom from the nuptial chamber, Thou didst come forth from the most noble womb of the Virgin Mother’. (From Vesper hymn for Advent.)
2 Ecclua. xxiv. 5.
3 Wisdom viii. 1.
4 Isai. ix. 2.
5 Isai. xi. 10.
6 Isai. lii. 15.
7 Apoc. iii. 7.
8 Isai. xlii. 7
9 Luke i. 78, 79.
10 Wisdom vii. 26.
11 Mai. iv. 2.
12 Zach. vi. 12.
13 Luke i. 78, 79.
14 Aggcus ii. 8.
15 Ephes. ii. 14, 15.
16 Gen. xlix. 10.
17 Ephes. v. 30.
18 Exod. xvi. 6.
19 Hebr. iv. 15,16.
20 ‘The blessed Creator of the world assumed the body of a servant, so that, redeeming flesh through his own flesb, he might not lose those whom he created’. (From Lauds hymn for Christmastide.)
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