December 21st : O Dayspring, splendor of light everlasting: Come and enlighten those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. Listen Here Brightest and best of the stars of the morning,Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid;Star of the East, the horizon adorning,Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. Cold …
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December 20th : O Key of David and scepter of the house of Israel, You open and no one can close, You close and no one can open: Come and rescue the prisoners who are in darkness and the shadow of death. Listen Here Due to copyright, I cannot share the text of this hymn. …
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December 19th : O Root of Jesse, standing as an ensign before the peoples, before whom all kings are mute, to whom the nations will do homage: Come quickly to deliver us. Listen Here Lo, how a rose e'er bloomingFrom tender stem hath sprung!Of Jesse's lineage comingAs prophets long have sung,It came, a flow'ret bright,Amid …
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December 18th : O Adonai and ruler of the house of Israel, who appeared to Moses in the burning bush and gave him the Law on Sinai: Come with an outstretched arm and redeem us. Listen Here "Comfort, comfort ye My people,Speak ye peace," thus saith our God;"Comfort those who sit in darkness,Mourning 'neath their …
December 17th : O Wisdom, proceeding from the mouth of the Most High, pervading and permeating all creation, mightily ordering all things: come and teach us the way of prudence. O Word of God incarnate,O Wisdom from on high,O Truth unchanged, unchanging,O Light of our dark sky:We praise You for the radianceThat from the hallowed …
Madelyn Rose Craig 