Thursday, December 17, 2009

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!


The "O" antiphons.
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I know.  It is a liturgical thing - very good - very nice - very lovely - all of that.  Awesome!  You will hear them recited, repeated, chanted, sung -  now until Christmas - and others talking about them as if they had never read scripture or heard such words and attributes of the God-man uttered by mere mortals ever before.  Very nice, very good, very lovely - all of that. 
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Seriously, the antiphons are just awesome and beautiful - truly...  Indispensable during the preparation for Christmas.  Nevertheless, liturgical bloggers, liturgists, and choirmasters tend to carry on about them - almost to excess.  If perchance some cleric or liturgist corners you and expounds on and on over the extraordinary beauty of the antiphons, just tell them, "I know!  Oooo!  I know, I know!"
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If these people did not carry on so dramatically - a soul just might be able to discover the spiritual beauty all on their own - as the Holy Spirit wills.  "The wind blows where it will, and thou hearest its voice, but knowest not whence it comes and where it goes: thus is every one that is born of the Spirit." - John 3:8
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Art:  Monks - no further information available.

7 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:41 AM

    I'm waiting for someone to say something funny about this post...:>

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  2. I was too! I think people are on to my pushing buttons thing. No one "reacts" any longer.

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  3. Anonymous11:52 AM

    Oooooooh, no, they'll show up. I think they might be doing something responsible, like working. LOL!

    (fyi: yes, I've done my work today, everybody's accounted for, I might go to purgatory, I don't believe once saved, always saved.....just covering all the usual objections to what I say ...:>)

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  4. Understood - I better get back to painting now. Confidence and love. ;)

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  5. Anonymous12:15 PM

    Let us know how your painting is going, the one for Christmas, if you can. Peace!

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  6. Hahaha, I don't have anything funny to add, but that was a great post!

    :):):)

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  7. So tell me, was this post brought to us by the letter O?

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