{"id":3736,"date":"2020-12-21T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2020-12-21T10:30:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T15:30:38","slug":"dec-21-solstice-5th-o-antiphon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2020\/12\/21\/dec-21-solstice-5th-o-antiphon-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 21 \u2013 Solstice 5th O Antiphon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec 21 shortest daylight = solstice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, December 21 \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0O Oriens<\/p>\n

At Detroit\u2019s latitude, we will have 9 hours and 3 minutes of daylight, 14 hours and 57 minutes of night time. Our shortest day. Today\u2019s O Antiphon, \u201cO Oriens\u201d (\u201cO Rising Sun\u201d) tells us that the long-ago writers of these sung-blessings for Advent\u2019s last days lived in the northern hemisphere. Deeper & deeper into the days of diminishing light they sing to human longing for liberation and dawn. Tomorrow the day will be 3 minutes longer (I think that\u2019s accurate), the dawn of the majestic march of sunrise back from it\u2019s southern-most point of Oriens.<\/p>\n

\u201cO Dayspring
\nsplendour of light and sun of justice:
\nCome and bring light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death.\u201d<\/p>\n

These days are full of tenderness, of giving and hospitality, of forgiving old wounds, of allowing someone to forgive and welcome me when our connection had been wounded. Days, too, of longing for the healing of the world\u2019s wounds, days of taking our places in the fatigue and longings of the whole human family.\u00a0 Daring days of courage. \u201cO Oriens\u201d is quite a prayer.<\/p>\n

Have a good day,<\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

Dec 21 \u2013 5th Antiphon O Oriens \u2013 O Dayspring<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Post: \u201cO Dayspring\u201d<\/strong>
\nTo listen to the Antiphon sung in Gregorian Chant
\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HAUzuw1l-7U<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dec 21 shortest daylight = solstice Saturday, December 21 \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0O Oriens At Detroit\u2019s latitude, we will have 9 hours and 3 minutes of daylight, 14 hours and 57 minutes of night time. Our shortest day. Today\u2019s O Antiphon, \u201cO … Continue reading →<\/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\/3736"}],"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=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3737,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions\/3737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}