As we plunge into the final week before Christmas (a week from toay is Christmas Eve!) the Church pulls out a series of her finest poetic and musical masterpieces, the "O" antiphons, sung each evening at Vespers before the Magnificat. The Latin Gregorian chant is where the beauty and poetry shine , but even in English, the imagery and concise phrasing make them simple but powerful prayers. Each one addresses Jesus under a special title taken from the Old Testament, gives him praise, and asks for him to Come. Today we address Jesus as Wisdom: "O Wisdom, you came forth from the mouth of the Most High, and reached from end to end, and disposed all things sweetly and mightily, come and teach us the way of prudence." St. John refers to Jesus as the Word, the Word that God spoke, and sent to us to teach us "the Way, the Truth and the Life." May this Word today lead us to the wisdom we need to lead a holy and prudent life, that is, a life in accord with what God has revealed to us as "the right way", and may we as adults be the wisdom for which our young are hungering and thirsting. "Come and teach us the way of prudence."
Bro. Rene
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