{"id":2138,"date":"2016-12-20T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:28","slug":"dec-20-o-key-of-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/12\/20\/dec-20-o-key-of-david\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 20  &#8220;O Key of David&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday December 20<\/p>\n<p>This morning I\u2019ll be driving down the Ohio Turnpike to the working class suburb of Pittsburgh, Baden. \u00a0Spending some of the days deepest into Advent hanging out with 5 or 6 Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden, soul friends of 40+ years. \u00a0We will tell each other stories of the year \u00a0as it winds down towards the Christian Christmas feast, \u00a0some of them playful, some tender, some burdened with grief or anger: storytelling as prayer and kinship: seasonal grace as 2016 turns toward 2017. \u00a0It\u2019s only a short visit; \u00a0I\u2019ll savor Ohio\u2019s northern turnpike again on Thursday when I head back to Motown and our campus.<\/p>\n<p>Have a blest day, the last before Winter Solstice with its graceful turning in the dimmest light of the year.<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>O Antiphon #4\u00a0 \u00a0O Clavis David \u2013\u00a0O Key of David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;O Key of David,<br \/>\nand scepter of the house of Israel,<br \/>\nyou open and no one closes,<br \/>\nyou close and no one opens<\/p>\n<p>Come and lead us who sit\u00a0bound with chains\u00a0in the prison house,<br \/>\nsitting in darkness and the shadow of death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2013\/12\/Key-of-David.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-207\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2013\/12\/Key-of-David.jpg\" alt=\"Key of David\" width=\"500\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2013\/12\/Key-of-David.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2013\/12\/Key-of-David-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>To listen to the Antiphon sung in Gregorian Chant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vbdwoydPktQ\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vbdwoydPktQ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday December 20 This morning I\u2019ll be driving down the Ohio Turnpike to the working class suburb of Pittsburgh, Baden. \u00a0Spending some of the days deepest into Advent hanging out with 5 or 6 Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/12\/20\/dec-20-o-key-of-david\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}