O Adonai

Today is the second “O” antiphon, O Adonai.

It has been a long time since I’ve sung these properly. Perhaps as much as eight years? Time has a way of slipping past, almost before you know it.

As much as I love that we’re chanting Sunday Vespers for Advent in my parish, I very much wish that it was a more regular occurrence.

These videos, which I will be embedding each day until Christmas, were recorded by the Dominican student brothers at Oxford in 2006.

O Adonái, et Dux domus Israël,
qui Móysi in igne flammæ rubi apparuísti,
et ei in Sina legem dedísti:
veni ad rediméndum nos in bráchio exténto.

Englished:

O Adonai, and leader of the House of Israel,
who appeared to Moses in the fire of the burning bush
and gave him the law on Sinai:
Come and redeem us with an outstretched arm.