\n“O key of David and scepter of the house of Israel : you open and no one closes; \u00a0you close and no one opens : Come and lead us out from the chains of this prison house, where we sit in darkness and the shadow of death.”<\/p>\n
Early this morning in the dark of our Lansing-Reilly kitchen, I made tea and oatmeal and savored stillness. \u00a0The last work morning of this year, a turning toward a time for noticing kinship at a slower pace. \u00a0 It came to me that the words of today’s O Antiphon do not sing of a single person. The first person plural pronoun “we<\/span>” is the one who “sits in darkness and death’s shadow.” \u00a0We<\/span> share griefs and fatigue; \u00a0we<\/span> suffer the violences that afflict any one of us; we<\/span> share delight and achievement and creative passion.<\/p>\n It’s an old lesson: that I do not live by myself. \u00a0 Noticing that while drinking some tea in the early morning dark made the tea taste a little better than usual. \u00a0 See you in the new year. \u00a0 Thankyou to everyone who gave me suggestions to improve these posts, or stopped me on the sidewalk, or emailed, to celebrate the power and beauty of one or another poem.<\/p>\n See you in 2014.<\/p>\n john sj<\/p>\n sung in chant (not precisely from the Liber Usualis though)\u00a0<\/span> http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vbdwoydPktQ<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Friday, \u00a0December 20, \u00a0 \u00a0 “O Key of David” “O Clavis David, et sceptrum domus Israel: qui aperis, et nemo claudit; \u00a0claudis, et nemo aperit : veni et educ vinctum de domo carceris, sedentem in tenebris et in umbra mortis.” … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2013\/12\/Key-of-David.jpg\")
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