O Rex Gentium

 O Rex Gentium - O King of Nations - O Antiphon for December 22


English:

O King of all the nations, the only joy of every human heart;

O Keystone of the mighty arch of man:Come and save the creature you fashioned from the dust.

Latin:

O Rex Gentium,

et desideratus earum, lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum: veni, et salva hominem, quem de limo formasti.


And the sixth "O" ornament on our Jesse Tree:




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