O Emmanuel

O Antiphons

O Emmanuel

Dec 23 2022 | 00:02:54

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23 December O Emmanuel, Rex et legifer noster, exspectatio gentium, et Salvator earum: veni ad salvandum nos Domine Deus noster. O Emmanuel, you are our king and judge the one whom the people await and their saviour. O come and save us Lord our God. God with us – Emmanuel – addresses the one who is nearly here the one we truly await. God with us. Not a distant god but a kindly human heart of a child one like us in all things but sin a child full of human weakness, dependent on mother and father for everything. He takes […]

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