Monday, December 18, 2017

O Adonai



Look at me, managing two sketches and two blog posts in a row! This is the second day of the O Antiphons, and we great Christ as Adonai, as Lord. I really like the word "adonai". It is fun to say. It looks enough like Latin to sneak by, but it is Hebrew, and has a good deal more meaning packed into it than either our English word "lord"or the Latin word, "domino".  

Here is the Antiphon, sung beautifully plain, and by a single voice:


And if you want to have the next in the series of explanations which I posted yesterday, by all means do.