Monday: O Dayspring, splendor of light everlasting: Come and
enlighten those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death.
Before
services last weekend, I mentioned a series of antiphons that the Church has
used as a sort of countdown to Christmas. (An antiphon is a verse to be sung
responsively before and after a song or psalm, in this case the Magnificat.) These
antiphons date back about 1500 years and reflect on the various titles of our
Lord Jesus.
The
antiphon for December 21 calls Jesus the Dayspring, which is an old way of
referring to the dawn. In today’s antiphon, we are reminded of the prophesies
made in Isaiah that those sitting in darkness would see a great light. (For
your reflection, the passage is here.)
Our
Christmas celebration includes a midnight (11 pm, actually) service that uses
candles to reflect the hope of a new day dawning and a morning service (10 am)
that celebrates the coming of the light in the person of Jesus Christ. I hope
you’ll be able join us at Divine Savior!
God’s light
has, indeed, dawned in the coming of our Lord Jesus in Bethlehem. And still we
wait for another dawn, the dawn of the Last Day. (See this verse,
too.)
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