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Article: `O Come, Emmanuel, save us, for you are our God'.(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- December 22, 2000
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The following reflection is one of a series by Elizabeth West of Harefield, Australia, on the O Antiphons, the alleluia verses from the Liturgy of the Hours traditionally recited during vespers in the latter days of Advent.
Tonight we gathered to pray the last of the O Antiphons. The air we drew into our lungs to give us breath to sing was clean, washed by summer storm and rain. The dust had been laid low, and the atmosphere was clear enough to see the details of the farms across the valley floor. Trees shone, and rocks on the hills opposite gleamed with moisture. It was pure and still in this late afternoon prayer time. No harvesters patrolled the paddocks, and ...