To-day's O Antiphon - Monday

Oh, how great are your works, Adonai! (Psalm 93)

O Adonai and Ruler of the House of Israel,

you appeared to Moses in the fire of the burning bush

and on Mount Sinai gave him your law.

Come, and with outstretched arm redeem us.

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O Lord Jesu Christ,

Who as the Angel of the Lord

didst rule and guard God's people of old;

Who didst appear to Moses in the burning bush,

that told of Thy presence hallowing but not consuming,

and of Thy people's preservation through fiery trials;

Who didst give the Law in Sinai and majesty and awe;

Thou didst come to visit mankind oppressed

and didst redeem us therefrom

by the victory of Thy Passion:

Come, we pray Thee, now by Thy grace,

and with Thine outstretched arm deliver us

from the bondage of evil habits

from the crafts and assaults of Satan,

from the tyrrany of the world,

and the disorder into which our nature has fallen

Write in our hearts by Thy Spirit

the law in obedience to which we shall find our true freedom,

Thy law of truth and purity and love.

The Advent AntiphonsWith Scripture references and paraphrases.
By A.C.A. Hall, Bishop of Vermont.
Milwaukee: The Young Churchman; London: A.R. Mowbray & Co., n.d. but c. 1914.