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From the 17th of December until Christmas Eve, the Church’s observance of Advent enters into an intense period of prayerful expectation for the coming of the Lord. This is reflected in the Church’s Great O Antiphons which are appointed to be recited at the Magnificat during Evensong/Vespers. And so today, O Sapientia :
O SAPIENTIA, quae exore Altissimi prodisti, attingens a fine usque ad finem, fortiter suaviter disponensque omnia: veni ad docendum nos viam prudentiae.
O WISDOM, which camest out of the mouth of the most High, and reachest from one end to another, mightily, and sweetly ordering all things: Come and teach us the way of prudence.
The music from the Dominican brothers at Oxford. The text from Anglican Wanderings
Lovely… sounds like my childhood. I used to go to Catholic daycamp in Louisiana. Once or twice a summer we’d visit St. Joseph’s Seminary in St. Benedict. Most of all I remember the chant of adult male voices.