{"id":997,"date":"2014-12-17T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=997"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:55","slug":"dec-17-the-o-antiphons-of-advent-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/12\/17\/dec-17-the-o-antiphons-of-advent-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 17 — The O Antiphons of Advent begin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday December 17 \u00a0\u2014 \u201cIt is the 3 strange angels . . . \u201c \u00a0 D. H. \u00a0Lawrence<\/strong><\/p>\n

D. H. Lawrence, of Lady Chatterley fame, wrote poetry as well. \u00a0Here is an Advent prayer if there ever was one.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is the knocking?
\nWhat is the knocking at the door in the night?
\nIt is somebody who wants to do us harm.<\/p>\n

No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Late December one year ago the Detroit bankruptcy had matured into grinding uncertainties; \u00a0surely for the c. 32,000 Detroit citizens whose futures looked harrowing \u2014 would their pensions, the magnitude of their underfunded status\u00a0becoming obvious by then, be chopped down to $0.75 on the dollar? \u00a0Surely for the Detroit Institute of Arts \u2014 would their world class collection of treasures be gutted by hungry creditors? \u00a0Surely for the city \u2014 would Detroit lose any shot at a turn toward fiscal integrity if the bankruptcy went sour \u2014 any shot at rebuilding its bus system, its computer system, its water system, its neighborhoods, because the creditor process stripped the city clean until it resembled a carcass instead of a vital place in which people love to live?<\/p>\n

I noticed in yesterday\u2019s Crain\u2019s Detroit Business, an article observing that Bankruptcy Judge Stephen Rhodes and, doubtless, Mediation Judge Gerald Rosen, had jawboned down the city\u2019s legal bills from the most complex city bankruptcy in US history and freed up another $25 million that could go to pressing needs \u2014 like buses or computer systems or the neighborhoods, to go with the $1.7 billion fund already set aside as part of the Grand Bargain for those same rebuilding purposes. \u00a0No mistake about it, \u00a0Detroit still packs wounds and has a long list of rebuilding projects \u2014> \u00a0but they are projects, which, like the phase one of the rebuilding of Livernois just outside our McNichols Campus, are starting points with believable futures. \u00a0Last year\u2019s knocking on our doors in the night of fiscal threat begin to look like D.H. Lawrence\u2019s three strange angels. \u00a0It is a very Advent emotion to risk some rejoicing of a future reborn in a still demanding world.<\/p>\n

Yes, gun-wielding violent people can still slaughter 132 innocent children as did the Taliban yesterday, just as other Taliban tried to murder Malala, Nobel Laureate champion of girls who risk their lives to attend school. \u00a0 Yes, Detroit\u2019s neighborhoods require daily courage to build on a miracle of cross-race and cross-politics mutual risk-taking through all this year of 2014. \u00a0Like the birth of every child, the birth of hope emerges into the world bloody and exhausted . . . \u00a0but pulsing with life.<\/p>\n

So the O Antiphons sing to us. \u00a0 I hope you enjoy them each day until Christmas Eve and recognize as you listen to their centuries-old Gregorian Chant that millions of women and men and children have listened before us.<\/p>\n

N.B. \u00a0We will post each antiphon on its day so you can look on this list from today (Wednesday) on Thursday, \u00a0the ordinary post-day Friday, as well as Saturday and Sunday and into the days before Christmas.<\/p>\n

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

 <\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post \u00a0December 17 \u00a0— “O Sapientia” \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

“O wisdom, coming forth from the Most High, filling all creation and reigning to the ends of the earth; come and teach us the way\u00a0of truth.
\nAmen. Come, Lord Jesus.”<\/p>\n

O Sapientia,
\nquae ex ore Altissimi prodiisti,
\nattingens a fine usque ad finem fortiter,
\nsuaviterque disponens omnia:
\nveni ad docendum nos viam prudentiae.<\/p>\n

\"O<\/a><\/p>\n

To listen to the Antiphon sung in Gregorian Chant \u00a0\u2014> \u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S6zaiZxJIpU<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"DHLawrence\"<\/a>\u2015 D.H. Lawrence, Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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