Today is the Feast of St Thomas the Apostle, the 21st day of the month of December, so on with another of the Greater Antiphons, and one of my favourites:
O Oriens, splendor lucis aeternae, et sol iustitiae: veni, et illumina sedentes in tenebris, et umbra mortis.
O Rising Sun, splendour of the eternal light and the sun of Justice: come, and illumine those sitting in the darkness and under the shadow of death.
But, in Middle-earth, the Sun is, unlike most other mythologies, seen as a second-best thing, and the sign of a fallen World...I couldn't find any appropriate Rising Sun images in Google Images, so I have settled for this Nativity scene from an old Book of Hours instead.
Beautiful. What a lovely way to prepare for the Special Day.
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