The 'O' Antiphons for Gaza: O Emmanuel

Autun St Lazare Flight Into Egypt

23 December

O Emmanuel

O Emmanuel our king and our lawgiver

The hope of the nations and their Saviours

Come and save us, O Lord our God

Autumn St Lazare Flight into Egypt

O Emmanuel

Holy One now come amongst us

Top cast the lot of God with humanity

And dwell as one of us

Hidden in the life of each and everyone

Until that glorious day when we return to the kingdom.

O everlasting dawn

True light that never sets.

O Christ our Sun our Morning Star

Radiant in brightness

Through all the nights of pain and sorrow

Save us from ourselves

Heal the wounds we inflict

Shatter the swords of the mighty ones

Pull down the false lawgivers

Cast out the princes and rulers from their seats of power

Not for vengeance

but for humility and love

That we may find the equality of all

As one in You.

Yet rich in difference

Emmanuel lawgiver

Turn our world upside down

And save us

Christ our true God