The Innkeeper
“She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn” (Luke 2:7). When I was in first grade, my Sunday School class put on a production of the Nativity story. We had been waiting for this all year. I wanted the part of[...]
O Rex Gentium: The Shepherd King
Could these two roles- shepherd and king- ever go together outside the Christian world? In the Old Testament, David, the ultimate type of Christ, is a shepherd-become-king. In Ezekiel 34, the Lord declares himself the True Shepherd, and says: “Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep, and will seek them out…I will seek[...]
O Radiant Dawn
O Radiant Dawn splendor of eternal light, sun of justice:Come, shine on those who dwell in darknessand the shadow of death. How beautiful that Our Lord visited not a perfect world that didn’t need saving, but one broken and disfigured by original sin, so that He might restore it! He did not come to bring[...]
O Key of David
O Key of David, and scepter of the house of Israel, who opens and no man shuts, who shuts and no man opens: come, and bring forth the captive from his prison, he who sits in darkness and in the shadow of death. A key is a symbol of authority. We are familiar with this[...]
