{"id":3742,"date":"2020-12-23T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2020-12-23T09:23:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T14:23:37","slug":"dec-23-o-emmanuel-the-7th-and-final-o-antiphon-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2020\/12\/23\/dec-23-o-emmanuel-the-7th-and-final-o-antiphon-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 23 \u2013 \u201cO Emmanuel\u201d the 7th and final O Antiphon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday, December 23 \u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 \u00a0\u00a0\u201cmy little heart loses its limits in joy\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advent ends today: three plus weeks of prophecy daring us to see the world as beautiful and beloved. \u00a0 That dare can shake us when Advent\u2019s antiphons compete with frightened and angry language as they surely do this year of economic crisis and fear of disease. \u00a0 Let\u2019s match the 7th O Antiphon from a thousand years ago with the first prayer-poem in Rabindranath Tagore\u2019s\u00a0<u>Gitanjali<\/u>, \u00a0a song of praise from the first decades of the 20th century. \u00a0 \u00a0Please consider them both as an offering to each of this list\u2019s c. 2700\u00a0readers.\u00a0 \u00a0Best to read out loud with pauses.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings during these holy days. \u00a0 One more post tomorrow on what Christians call\u00a0\u201cChristmas Eve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>p.s.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tagore died in the city of his birth, Calcutta, in 1941. \u00a0He vastly influenced poetry, sacred and secular, not only in India but around the world. \u00a0He is the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. \u00a0If you buy\u00a0<u>Gitanjali,<\/u>\u00a0a book of 100 short sacred poems, prepare yourself to only read one poem at a time so you can sit with it. \u00a0Here is # 1. \u00a0 These poems have no titles, only numbers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s post \u2013 \u00a0Gitanjali # 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thou hast made me endless,\u00a0 such is thy pleasure.<br \/>\nThis frail vessel thou emptiest again and again,<br \/>\nand fillest it ever with fresh life.<br \/>\nThis little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales,<br \/>\nand hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.<br \/>\nAt the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart<br \/>\nloses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.<br \/>\nThy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine.<br \/>\nAges pass, and still thou pourest,<br \/>\nand still there is room to fill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 7th O Antiphon, \u00a0\u201cO Emmanuel\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>O Emmanuel! \u00a0ruler \u00a0and giver of our laws,<br \/>\nHope of the people from across the whole world,<br \/>\nCome to save us<br \/>\nO Lord our God.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/12\/Emmanuel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1038\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/12\/Emmanuel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/12\/Emmanuel.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/12\/Emmanuel-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To listen to the Antiphon sung in Gregorian Chant<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FWGM9bJR2Cs\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FWGM9bJR2Cs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, December 23 \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0\u00a0\u201cmy little heart loses its limits in joy\u201d Advent ends today: three plus weeks of prophecy daring us to see the world as beautiful and beloved. \u00a0 That dare can shake us when Advent\u2019s antiphons compete &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2020\/12\/23\/dec-23-o-emmanuel-the-7th-and-final-o-antiphon-3\/\">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\/3742"}],"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=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3743,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions\/3743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}