O Adonai

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

It has been a long time since I’ve sung these properly – three years now – and I very much miss chanting Vespers in community. One of my great hopes is that our chapel will be finished this time next year, so that we may pray these antiphons there. Of course, I said that last year as well. Time has a way of slipping past, almost before you know it.

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.