The Ancient Collects

“Yesterday the Lamb was slain and the

doorposts were anointed, and Egypt

bewailed her Firstborn, and the Destroyer

passed us over, and the Seal was dreadful

and reverend, and we were walled in

with the Precious Blood. Today we have

clean escaped from Egypt and from

Pharaoh; and there is none to hinder us

from keeping a Feast to the Lord our

God—the Feast of... See more

THE O ANTIPHONS

O Emmanuel,

our King and our Lawgiver,

the hope of the nations and their Savior:

come and save us, O Lord our God.

Taken from The New Ancient Collects

THE O ANTIPHONS

O Root of Jesse,

standing as a sign among the peoples,

before you kings will shut their mouths;

to you the nations will make their prayer.

Come and deliver us, and delay no longer.

Taken from The New Ancient Collects

THE O ANTIPHONS

O King of the nations,

and their desire,

the cornerstone making both one:

come and save the human race,

which you fashioned from clay.

Taken from The New Ancient Collects

O Morning Star,

splendor of light eternal

and Sun of righteousness:

come and enlighten those who dwell

in darkness and the shadow of death.

Taken from The New Ancient Collects