Kings fall silent before you...

(Vatican Radio) Listen to this Advent season to the O Antiphons including 'O radix Iesse, O root of Jesse, kings fall silent before you , whom the peoples acclaim...."

"The antiphons begin by addressing Our Lord with a title taken from the Old Testament," says our music historian Monsignor Phiip Whitmore adding: "..the first in the series is called
O Sapientia, O Wisdom, you come forth from the mouth of the Most High. You fill the universe and hold all things together in a strong yet gentle manner. O come to teach us the way of truth."

A programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick.

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