Tag Archives: Dom Prosper Guéranger

Dom Prosper Guéranger and the Anti-Liturgical Heresy

After a little rooting around in my library, I found another little piece of written work I did at Fribourg University back in 1987. Like my later work on the Tridentine Mass, I worked with my liturgy professor Fr Jakob … Continue reading

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O Virgo virginum

December 23: The Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Eighth Antiphon (according to the Sarum Use / Book of Common Prayer) O Virgo virginum, quomodo fiet istud? quia nec primam similem visa es, nec habere sequentem. Filiae Jerusalem, quid … Continue reading

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O Emmanuel

December 22: Seventh Antiphon (according to the Sarum Use / Book of Common Prayer) O Emmanuel, Rex et Legifer noster, exspectatio gentium, et salvator earum; veni ad salvandum nos, Domine Deus noster. O Emmanuel, our King and Lawgiver, the Desire … Continue reading

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O Rex Gentium

December 21: Sixth Antiphon (according to the Sarum Use / Book of Common Prayer) O Rex gentium, et desideratus earum, lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum; veni, et salva hominem quem de limo formasti. O King of the nations, and … Continue reading

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O Oriens

December 20: Fifth Antiphon (according to the Sarum Use / Book of Common Prayer) O Oriens, splendor lucis aeternae, et sol justitiae; veniet illumina sedentes in tenebris, et umbra mortis. O Day-spring, Brightness of Light everlasting, and Sun of Righteousness: … Continue reading

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O Clavis David

December 19: Fourth Antiphon (according to the Sarum Use / Book of Common Prayer) O Clavis David et sceptrum domus Israel, qui aperis, et nemo claudit; claudis, et nemo aperit; veni, et educ vinctum de domo carceris, sedentem in tenebris, … Continue reading

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O Radix Jesse

December 18: Third Antiphon (according to the Sarum Use / Book of Common Prayer) O radix Jesse, qui stas in signum populorum, super quem continebunt reges os suum, quem gentes deprecabuntur: veni ad liberandum nos, jam noli tardare. O Root … Continue reading

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O Adonai

December 17: Second Antiphon (according to the Sarum Use / Book of Common Prayer) O Adonai, et dux domus Israel, qui Moysi in igne flammae rubi apparuisti, et ei in Sina legem dedisti: veni ad redimendum nos in brachio extento. … Continue reading

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O Sapientia

The Great O Antiphons by Dom Prosper Guéranger OSB (1801-1875), founder of the Abbey of Solesmes (from L’Année Liturgique) – adapted for the Sarum sequence of the Antiphons December 16: The beginning of the Great Antiphons (according to the Sarum … Continue reading

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